[Secure-testing-team] Embedded dietlibc in ccontrol

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Nico Golde:
> 
> > Hi Ted,
> > * Ted Percival <ted at midg3t.net> [2007-10-15 09:03]:
> >> ccontrol staticly links in dietlibc. I guess it should be added to the 
> >> list of packages with embedded code, unless static linking is handled 
> >> separately.
> >
> > BTW did you consider to use the shared library?
> 
> Or linking against libc6, like everybody else on the planet? 8-)

Indeed, linking against dietlibc should only be done for special cases
like bootloader environments or such, glibc provides several security
features missing in dietlibc or uclibc.

Cheers,
        Moritz