Bug 12379

Summary: CONFIG_USELIB is enabled on x86_64 and i586
Product: IPFire Reporter: Peter Müller <peter.mueller>
Component: ---Assignee: Peter Müller <peter.mueller>
Status: CLOSED FIXED QA Contact: Arne.F <arne.fitzenreiter>
Severity: Security    
Priority: Will affect most users    
Version: 2   
Hardware: unspecified   
OS: All   
Bug Depends on:    
Bug Blocks: 12361    

Description Peter Müller 2020-04-14 15:58:16 UTC
Quote from https://capsule8.com/blog/kernel-configuration-glossary/:

> Significance: Medium
> 
> This option enables the uselib syscall a system call used in the dynamic
> linker from libc5 and earlier. glibc does not use this system call. If you
> intend to run programs built on libc5 or earlier you may need to enable this
> syscall. Current systems running glibc can safely disable this.

In my point of view, the last sentence matches our needs.
Comment 1 Peter Müller 2020-04-18 08:24:44 UTC
https://patchwork.ipfire.org/patch/2981/