Bug#1022766: dpkg-shlibdeps: repeatedly emits duplicate warnings

2022-10-25 Thread Guillem Jover
Hi! On Tue, 2022-10-25 at 14:23:18 +0200, Andreas Beckmann wrote: > Package: dpkg-dev > Version: 1.21.9 > Severity: normal > While checking the nvida-cuda-toolkit buildd logs [1], I came across a > long sequence of repeated error messages: > > pkg-shlibdeps: warning: can't extract name and

Bug#1021292: Enabling branch protection on amd64 and arm64

2022-10-25 Thread Wookey
On 2022-10-25 16:10 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 at 15:34:26 +0100, Wookey wrote: > > These are hardware features (new instructions) that 'tag' pointers and > > branch targets to make it much harder for malicious code to implement > > ROP (return oriented programming) and JOP

Bug#1021292: Enabling branch protection on amd64 and arm64

2022-10-25 Thread Simon McVittie
On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 at 15:34:26 +0100, Wookey wrote: > These are hardware features (new instructions) that 'tag' pointers and > branch targets to make it much harder for malicious code to implement > ROP (return oriented programming) and JOP (Jump oriented programming) > attacks. > > They have

Bug#1021292: Enabling branch protection on amd64 and arm64

2022-10-25 Thread Wookey
I have been in discussion with Guillem about enabling the various branch protection mechanisms available on newer x86 and arm CPUs. These are hardware features (new instructions) that 'tag' pointers and branch targets to make it much harder for malicious code to implement ROP (return oriented

Bug#1022766: dpkg-shlibdeps: repeatedly emits duplicate warnings

2022-10-25 Thread Andreas Beckmann
Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.21.9 Severity: normal While checking the nvida-cuda-toolkit buildd logs [1], I came across a long sequence of repeated error messages: pkg-shlibdeps: warning: can't extract name and version from library name 'libfoobar.so' There are about 40 repetitions of this