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| author | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2023-11-22 08:38:33 +0100 |
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| committer | Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> | 2023-11-22 08:38:33 +0100 |
| commit | 5d7f1bce7d8eea31f4baeb68bcc3124b35acc751 (patch) | |
| tree | e9a4a7908362d7e08cdb8a2444ce262e2c242f8e /NEWS | |
| parent | 780c33920281c5d5cc42a1e578bdc9218e675405 (diff) | |
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posix: Revert the removal of the crypt prototype from <unistd.h>
Many applications still rely on this prototype. Rebuilds without this prototype result in an implicit function declaration, which can introduce security vulnerabilities due to 32-bit pointer truncation.
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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 139cfef1b0..8c1c149f91 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -52,7 +52,10 @@ Deprecated and removed features, and other changes affecting compatibility: * libcrypt has been removed from the GNU C Library. The configure options "--enable-crypt" and "--enable-nss-crypt" are no longer available. <crypt.h>, libcrypt.a, and libcrypt.so.1 will not be - installed, and <unistd.h> will not declare the crypt function. + installed. For now <unistd.h> continues to declare the crypt + function by default, to avoid introducing vulnerabilities into + existing applications due to a missing prototype. This declaration + is deprecated and may be removed in a future glibc release. The replacement for libcrypt is libxcrypt, maintained separately from GNU libc, but available under compatible licensing terms, and providing |