[29966] in bugtraq
Re: Portable OpenSSH: Dangerous AIX linker behavior (aixgcc.adv)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Wed Apr 30 15:52:26 2003
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To: Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:39:49 +1000."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
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On Wed, 30 Apr 2003 13:39:49 +1000, Damien Miller <djm@mindrot.org> said:
> 1. Systems affected:
>
> Users of Portable OpenSSH prior to 3.6.1p2 on AIX are affected
> if OpenSSH was compiled using a non-AIX compiler (e.g. gcc).
This is the same problem as I spotted in Sendmail 8.10. Basically,
somewhere, linking is being done with "-L. -lfoo" or similar (in sendmail's
case, it was -L../otherdir type stuff).
Workaround/fix: Link with "-bnolibpath -blibpath:/usr/local/lib:/usr/lib"
or similar.
--
Valdis Kletnieks
Computer Systems Senior Engineer
Virginia Tech
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