[arch-general] what about ELF rpath in Arch Linux?

Daenyth Blank daenyth+arch at gmail.com
Fri Mar 20 07:52:41 EDT 2009


On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 02:58, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi
<vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> (first: sorry my very bad english)
>
> I see that many executables and libraries in Arch Linux don't take care
> about rpath in package creation step.
> <snip>

Thanks for pointing this out, it's a pretty serious security issue.
Please file a bug on http://bugs.archlinux.org about it. Probably one
of the better solutions would be for makepkg to strip the rpath in the
same step where it uses "strip" to remove debugging info.


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