Opened 16 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

#6973 closed defect (invalid)

Text relocations in color.c and filter_greedyhdeint.c

Reported by: briandlong@… Owned by: Isaac Richards
Priority: minor Milestone: unknown
Component: MythTV - General Version: unknown
Severity: medium Keywords:
Cc: Ticket locked: yes

Description

When trying to run MythTV 0.21-fixes on Fedora 11 with SELinux enabled, I get the following error:

SELinux is preventing mythfrontend from loading /usr/lib/mythtv/filters/libgreedyhdeint.so which requires text relocation

According to a Red Hat article, compilation with -fPIC should fix the problem unless the text relocation is taking place in ASM code (which appears to be the case with filter_greedyhdeint.c including greedyh.asm).

http://people.redhat.com/drepper/textrelocs.html

The workaround is to configure SELinux to allow text relocation in this library, but it would be better if MythTV fixed the security problem.

Change History (1)

comment:1 Changed 16 years ago by danielk

Resolution: invalid
Status: newclosed
Ticket locked: set

Not a bug. Feature request without patch.

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