Summary: | kdelibs built in malloc lacks code to prevent heap overflow exploitation | ||
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Product: | [Frameworks and Libraries] kdelibs | Reporter: | Evan Teran <evan.teran> |
Component: | general | Assignee: | Lubos Lunak <l.lunak> |
Status: | RESOLVED INTENTIONAL | ||
Severity: | normal | ||
Priority: | NOR | ||
Version: | unspecified | ||
Target Milestone: | --- | ||
Platform: | Gentoo Packages | ||
OS: | Linux | ||
Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: |
Description
Evan Teran
2006-09-02 20:09:34 UTC
the code is dropped in KDE4 and not recommended in KDE3 for modern linux. So I don't think we want to fix this Gentoo stopped using the fast-malloc command line option a long time ago. In fact, we do a --disable-fast-malloc at configure time. Agreed. Nobody seems to be using this anymore. |