From: Bernd Kuhls <bernd@kuhls.net>
To: buildroot@buildroot.org
Cc: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 1/1] package/libcap: security bump version to 2.78
Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2026 07:19:08 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260410051908.25055-1-bernd@kuhls.net> (raw)
Release notes:
https://sites.google.com/site/fullycapable/release-notes-for-libcap#h.x4zn8j3lss6r
Removed patch which is included in this release.
Fixes CVE-2026-4878.
Signed-off-by: Bernd Kuhls <bernd@kuhls.net>
---
...Add-build-ldflags-to-_makenames-rule.patch | 34 -------------------
package/libcap/libcap.hash | 2 +-
package/libcap/libcap.mk | 2 +-
3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
delete mode 100644 package/libcap/0001-Revert-libcap-Add-build-ldflags-to-_makenames-rule.patch
diff --git a/package/libcap/0001-Revert-libcap-Add-build-ldflags-to-_makenames-rule.patch b/package/libcap/0001-Revert-libcap-Add-build-ldflags-to-_makenames-rule.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index ae9655fd57..0000000000
--- a/package/libcap/0001-Revert-libcap-Add-build-ldflags-to-_makenames-rule.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,34 +0,0 @@
-From 542d7d86ecd2129dd5fe7e5b31ba307304f5b319 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
-From: "Andrew G. Morgan" <morgan@kernel.org>
-Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2025 18:26:34 -0800
-Subject: [PATCH] Revert "libcap: Add build ldflags to _makenames rule"
-
-This reverts commit c3ddf45d9afaab85d3b7db0dc7bfd1aafb8fde50.
-
-The details of what this broke are here:
-
- https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220691#c2
-
-Signed-off-by: Andrew G. Morgan <morgan@kernel.org>
-Upstream: 542d7d86ecd2129dd5fe7e5b31ba307304f5b319
-Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@bootlin.com>
----
- libcap/Makefile | 2 +-
- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
-
-diff --git a/libcap/Makefile b/libcap/Makefile
-index f0eb87e..e90a950 100644
---- a/libcap/Makefile
-+++ b/libcap/Makefile
-@@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ $(PSXTITLE).pc: $(PSXTITLE).pc.in
- $< >$@
-
- _makenames: _makenames.c cap_names.list.h
-- $(BUILD_CC) $(BUILD_CFLAGS) $(BUILD_CPPFLAGS) $< -o $@ $(BUILD_LDFLAGS)
-+ $(BUILD_CC) $(BUILD_CFLAGS) $(BUILD_CPPFLAGS) $< -o $@
-
- cap_names.h: _makenames
- ./_makenames > cap_names.h
---
-2.51.1
-
diff --git a/package/libcap/libcap.hash b/package/libcap/libcap.hash
index 1925060235..735481f33c 100644
--- a/package/libcap/libcap.hash
+++ b/package/libcap/libcap.hash
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
# https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/libcap2/sha256sums.asc
-sha256 897bc18b44afc26c70e78cead3dbb31e154acc24bee085a5a09079a88dbf6f52 libcap-2.77.tar.xz
+sha256 0d621e562fd932ccf67b9660fb018e468a683d7b827541df27813228c996bb11 libcap-2.78.tar.xz
# Hash for license file:
sha256 68467e731f4744bd6e0bb69e8df9c3a994e09cd6b203d0c41327ac6d079c581d License
diff --git a/package/libcap/libcap.mk b/package/libcap/libcap.mk
index 37ccdc22b4..f3cd49ff0f 100644
--- a/package/libcap/libcap.mk
+++ b/package/libcap/libcap.mk
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
#
################################################################################
-LIBCAP_VERSION = 2.77
+LIBCAP_VERSION = 2.78
LIBCAP_SITE = https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/security/linux-privs/libcap2
LIBCAP_SOURCE = libcap-$(LIBCAP_VERSION).tar.xz
LIBCAP_LICENSE = GPL-2.0 or BSD-3-Clause
--
2.47.3
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