[PlanetCCRMA] [LAD] interesting security update to bristol just came out

Orcan Ogetbil oget.fedora at gmail.com
Mon Nov 15 12:05:28 PST 2010


On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 2:46 PM, Paul Davis  wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Niels Mayer  wrote:
>> I noticed that bristol-0.40.7-7 updated due to the following security
>> update. What got me curious is what kind of security issue could
>> running bristol possibly pose?? -- none on it's own, but another rogue
>> package could exploit this issue ...
>
> for whatever its worth, ardour had the same issue.
>
> there's a more elegant fix than the one shown in that bug report
> though. the general form is:
>
>   LD_LIBRARY_PATH=StuffToAddToLdLibraryPath${LD_LIBRARY_PATH:+:$LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
>

Shorter? Yes. More elegant? That's debatable since it is a confusing syntax.

For the ardour package in Fedora, I used your fix though, since you
are the upstream.

Orcan



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