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+ <H1>[Mageia-dev] About syslinux &amp; libpng</H1>
+ <B>Funda Wang</B>
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+<PRE>It seems we are the only distros (with Mandriva) building syslinux with
+system libpng.
+&#22312; 2011-9-30 &#19978;&#21320;2:41&#65292;&quot;Erwan Velu&quot; &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">erwanaliasr1 at gmail.com</A>&gt;&#20889;&#36947;&#65306;
+&gt;<i> Le 28/09/2011 22:13, D.Morgan a &#233;crit :
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> On Wed, Sep 28, 2011 at 9:56 PM, Erwan Velu&lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">erwanaliasr1 at gmail.com</A>&gt;
+</I>wrote:
+&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> I'm currently updating Syslinux 4.04 and I'm currently facing a trouble
+</I>as,
+&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> historically speaking, we do remove the included libpng by the system
+</I>one.
+&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> The compilation process fails. I was wondering if we really consider
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> replacing the libpng of syslinux as a security issue.
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Sec team ? What's your opinion on it ?
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Cheers,
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> hi,
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> i take my security hat on, we prefer when possible when we use the system
+</I>libs.
+&gt;&gt;<i> i have not looked but which libpng is included ?
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> It take the libpng-source to replace the current syslinux code.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> The point is syslinux is a bootloader that obviously don't share libs
+</I>&gt;<i> with the rest of the system.
+</I>&gt;<i> Considering that we can attack the bootloader via a picture means you
+</I>&gt;<i> compromized the picture. If you can change the picture located at /boot,
+</I>&gt;<i> means that you can compromize the booting parameters too.
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> So if we take this road of removing bootloader's libs, shall we also
+</I>&gt;<i> remove the jpeg/gz/gcc/... libs too, and maybe for other bootloaders too ?
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> I do understand the need for the application that runs under linux...
+</I>&gt;<i> but about the bootloaders...
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> What's your thoughts about it ?
+</I>&gt;<i> Would you agree on keep syslinux untouched regarding the png lib ?
+</I>&gt;<i>
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