On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 18:42 -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Daniel J Walsh wrote: > > I believe you told me that the fluendo codecs are built with the Intel > > compiler and that is why they need the textrel_shlib_t to work together. > > Uli mentioned that he could work with the Intel guys to fix the problem. > > Actually, I doubt this is a property of code generated by icc. It is > more likely that they use (pieces of) assembler code which is not > PIC-safe. There are plenty of descriptions on how to fix this around. > IMO we should not endorse those encodings until they fix these issues > since they open up a computer to attacks. Does anyone even care about fluendo codec's security? They don't even get updated with yum in case a flaw is found. -- Lubomir Kundrak (Red Hat Security Response Team) -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
