On Mon, 2019-02-11 at 18:47 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote
If you take the address of a local variable and pass the resulting
pointer to another function, the compiler will generate a call to
__stack_chk_fail, which lives in glibc. At build time, linking
against
glibc is required so that this symbol receives its proper version,
otherwise the resulting binary is invalid and may not be compatible
with
future glibc versions.
Thanks,
Florian
Since the extensions get the symbols from the Python interpreter on
dynamic load, I can see the risk here in case of third-party software,
where the interpreter gets recompiled against a new glibc version and
the extension is left alone. However, the extensions are recompiled
whenever the interpreter is and so will always be compatible with the
'current' glibc version. There is no need to keep an eye out for future
versions. Or is there?