On 02/27/2015 12:49 PM, ANDY KENNEDY wrote: > All, > > Please excuse any ignorance in this e-mail as I am not a RH/CentOS/Fedora > user and may > blunder my way through the correct terminology for my request.
No problem. > I'm tasked with reconstructing the CentOS version of the GlibC library for > testing with > gethostbyname(). My mission is to show that we are not affected by the > latest exploit for > the product we are shipping targeted for RHEL and CentOS. To do so, I want > to equip > gethostbyname() with additional code. Do you plan on shipping this updated glibc as part of the product, or is this simply for testing? If you plan to distribute/ship an updated glibc, that's probably going to raise a few eyebrows and anger a few sysadmins. > My objective is to rebuild from source the EXACT version of GlibC for CentOS > 6.6. > Afterwards, I will make my changes in the code, rebuild and complete my > testing. > > libc.so.6 reports: > GNU C Library stable release version 2.12, by Roland McGrath et al. > Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc. > This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. > There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A > PARTICULAR PURPOSE. > Compiled by GNU CC version 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-11). > Compiled on a Linux 2.6.32 system on 2015-01-27. > Available extensions: > The C stubs add-on version 2.1.2. > crypt add-on version 2.1 by Michael Glad and others > GNU Libidn by Simon Josefsson > Native POSIX Threads Library by Ulrich Drepper et al > BIND-8.2.3-T5B > RT using linux kernel aio > libc ABIs: UNIQUE IFUNC > For bug reporting instructions, please see: > <http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/bugs.html>. > > But, when looking through the source code for this version on the CentOS > servers I only see: > <http://vault.centos.org/6.6/updates/Source/SPackages/> > [ ] glibc-2.12-1.149.el6_6.4.src.rpm 07-Jan-2015 22:45 15M > > [ ] glibc-2.12-1.149.el6_6.5.src.rpm 27-Jan-2015 23:13 15M > > > Please point me to the correct source tarball, and all required patches so > that I can > reconstruct my loaded version of GlibC. A yum command is also acceptable. Those src.rpms contain the source and the patches. You may want to read over http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/RebuildSRPM for info. -- Jim Perrin The CentOS Project | http://www.centos.org twitter: @BitIntegrity | GPG Key: FA09AD77 _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos