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authorBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2015-03-04 03:23:00 +0000
committerBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2015-03-04 03:23:00 +0000
commit326224b21fa847158049d89fea60ba734343abaa (patch)
tree7d9c47057fef219b33d4a99e34a7a752fa67f11b /chapter06
parentb304545f357ff9afcf45617ebd801f3d5a4c3055 (diff)
Add seds to grep and e3fsprogs to fix security issues found upstream.
Remove unrecognized option in eudev. Minor text corrections. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@10863 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter06')
-rw-r--r--chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml6
-rw-r--r--chapter06/eudev.xml3
-rw-r--r--chapter06/glibc.xml2
-rw-r--r--chapter06/grep.xml4
4 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml b/chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml
index 7aa781254..071fb147e 100644
--- a/chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml
+++ b/chapter06/e2fsprogs.xml
@@ -44,6 +44,12 @@
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of E2fsprogs</title>
+ <para>First, fix a potential security issue identified upstream:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="pre">sed -e '/int.*old_desc_blocks/s/int/blk64_t/' \
+ -e '/if (old_desc_blocks/s/super->s_first_meta_bg/desc_blocks/' \
+ -i lib/ext2fs/closefs.c</userinput></screen>
+
<para>The E2fsprogs documentation recommends that the package be built in
a subdirectory of the source tree: </para>
diff --git a/chapter06/eudev.xml b/chapter06/eudev.xml
index 129d99d94..b9aca2c4c 100644
--- a/chapter06/eudev.xml
+++ b/chapter06/eudev.xml
@@ -62,8 +62,7 @@ BLKID_LIBS='-L/tools/lib -lblkid' \
--enable-keymap \
--disable-introspection \
--disable-gudev \
- --disable-gtk-doc-html \
- --with-firmware-path=/lib/firmware </userinput></screen>
+ --disable-gtk-doc-html</userinput></screen>
<para>Compile the package:</para>
diff --git a/chapter06/glibc.xml b/chapter06/glibc.xml
index 1ba0e7c84..183b33c75 100644
--- a/chapter06/glibc.xml
+++ b/chapter06/glibc.xml
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ cd ../glibc-build</userinput></screen>
-->
<listitem>
<para>Other tests known to fail on some architectures are
- malloc/tst-malloc-usable and nptl/tst-cleanupx4. </para>
+ malloc/tst-malloc-usable and nptl/tst-cleanupx4. </para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
diff --git a/chapter06/grep.xml b/chapter06/grep.xml
index 58b0db366..126b65182 100644
--- a/chapter06/grep.xml
+++ b/chapter06/grep.xml
@@ -40,6 +40,10 @@
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Grep</title>
+ <para>First fix a potential security issue identified upstream:</para>
+
+<screen><userinput remap="configure">sed -i -e '/tp++/a if (ep &lt;= tp) break;' src/kwset.c</userinput></screen>
+
<para>Prepare Grep for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput remap="configure">./configure --prefix=/usr --bindir=/bin</userinput></screen>