Symbol `SSL_ImplementedCiphers' has different size in shared object, consider re-linking

Florian Weimer fweimer at redhat.com
Fri Sep 4 15:00:15 UTC 2015


On 09/04/2015 04:11 PM, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 04, 2015 at 03:58:12PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> On 09/04/2015 03:49 PM, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
>>
>>> Clearly it is used by some programs, so it should be considered part of the
>>> public API.  If it wasn't meant to be exported, it should not have been
>>> exported.  The ld.so warning is only emitted if there is a copy relocation
>>> against that symbol and the symbol has different size in the copy relocation
>>> vs. the new size in the shared library.
>>
>> Ugh, I forgot.
>>
>> Will the process use the size from the shared library, or will the
>> object be truncated, so that when the library tries to traverse the
>> array (using its hard-coded size), it will read past the end of the
>> allocated portion?
> 
> It copies the minimum of the two sizes.

Do references in other dynamic shared objects matter for determining the
final size?  Or is this simply between the main program and the library
which defines the symbol?

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Florian Weimer / Red Hat Product Security


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