From: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Cc: adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org, vincent@vinc17.net,
linux-man@vger.kernel.org, libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mcheck.3, mtrace.3: update examples for glibc 2.34
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2023 15:28:30 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <xnjzrbu8f5.fsf@greed.delorie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZTgQi4afYgYFzUBV@debian>
Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org> writes:
> Why was it moved to a different library?
Security. Moving unneeded code out of libc.so makes it unavailable to
hackers. The malloc-related code in glibc is a common target for such
things.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-10-24 19:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-10-24 14:31 [PATCH] mcheck.3, mtrace.3: update examples for glibc 2.34 Vincent Lefevre
2023-10-24 15:32 ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-10-24 16:28 ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2023-10-24 18:44 ` Alejandro Colomar
2023-10-24 19:28 ` DJ Delorie [this message]
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