WARNING - Seriously damage vulnerability for _desktop_ users, be careful.

Bartek Stalewski werbat at NOSPAMdragonflybsd.pl
Mon Feb 7 00:00:25 PST 2005


Hi there,

I have DragonFly on my workstation computer. I'm using firefox with 
flash via linuxpluginwrapper.

Going forward instructions from the port, I have always patched 
/usr/src/libexec/rtld-so, after building world.

Today, as usual, after world I've patched sources, and made 'make 
install clean'. Unfortunatelly, actual sources of rtld-so are not 
supporting changes from libmap's diff, required for flash. So, the 
effect was simple - ld-elf.so.1 has been broken ;-) ALL SYSTEM was 
totally broken.

I was able to recover it (mouting filesystem from LiveCD, chflags, and 
move backuped ld-elf.so.1.old to /usr/libexec).

Of course, the fault was on my side - after reading @commits I should 
know, that rtld-so has changed.

But, I want to warn all desktop users, working with flash - the plugin 
is currently broken, and better DON'T try to use it, because You all 
could end like me ;-))

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Bartek Stalewski // werbat 'at' dragonflybsd 'dot' pl




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