[LAD] interesting security update to bristol just came out

Paul Davis paul at linuxaudiosystems.com
Mon Nov 15 19:46:30 UTC 2010


On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 5:39 PM, Niels Mayer <nielsmayer at gmail.com> 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}



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