Source: gimmix Version: 0.5.7.1-3 Severity: normal User: [email protected] Usertags: hardening-format-security hardening
the package gimmix fails to compile with the new hardened compiler flags dpkg-buildflag outputs [0]. The problematic flag is: -Werror=format-security See the ubuntu buildlog: https://launchpadlibrarian.net/83134274/buildlog_ubuntu-precise-i386.gimmix_0.5.7.1-3_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz Snippet: gcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -pthread -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0 -I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/atk-1.0 -I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0 -I/usr/include/pixman-1 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/taglib -I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/ -I/usr/include/glib-2.0 -I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libmpd-1.0/ -I/usr/include/libglade-2.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2 -DPREFIX=\"/usr\" -fPIC -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Wformat-security -Werror=format-security -DHAVE_TAGEDITOR -DHAVE_LYRICS -DHAVE_COVER_PLUGIN -pipe -Wall -c gimmix-config.c gimmix-config.c: In function 'gimmix_config_get_bool': gimmix-config.c:96:3: warning: zero-length gnu_printf format string [-Wformat-zero-length] gimmix-config.c: In function 'gimmix_config_get_proxy_string': gimmix-config.c:149:4: error: format not a string literal and no format arguments [-Werror=format-security] The buildflags are not exported in debian, but can be enabled e.g. by adding this to debian/rules: DPKG_EXPORT_BUILDFLAGS = 1 include /usr/share/dpkg/buildflags.mk Please fix the issues and maybe also enable the hardened build in debian. [0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2011/09/msg00001.html
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