Source: gnome-commander
Version: 1.2.8.14-1
Severity: normal
User: [email protected]
Usertags: hardening-format-security hardening

the package gnome-commander 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/83136730/buildlog_ubuntu-precise-i386.gnome-commander_1.2.8.14-1_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz
Snippet:
libtool: compile:  g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I.. -Wall -DORBIT2=1
-pthread -D_REENTRANT -I/usr/include/gtk-2.0
-I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0 -I/usr/include/pango-1.0
-I/usr/include/gail-1.0 -I/usr/include/freetype2 -I/usr/include/atk-1.0
-I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/gtk-2.0/include -I/usr/include/pixman-1
-I/usr/include/libpng12 -I/usr/include/libgnomeui-2.0
-I/usr/include/libart-2.0 -I/usr/include/gconf/2
-I/usr/include/gnome-keyring-1 -I/usr/include/libgnome-2.0
-I/usr/include/libbonoboui-2.0 -I/usr/include/libgnomecanvas-2.0
-I/usr/include/gnome-vfs-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/include
-I/usr/include/orbit-2.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
-I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -I/usr/include/libbonobo-2.0
-I/usr/include/bonobo-activation-2.0 -I/usr/include/libxml2
-I/usr/include/cairo -I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/ -pthread -DORBIT2=1
-I/usr/include/gnome-vfs-2.0 -I/usr/lib/gnome-vfs-2.0/include
-I/usr/include/gconf/2 -I/usr/include/orbit-2.0 -I/usr/include/glib-2.0
-I/usr/lib/glib-2.0/include -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -O2 -fstack-protector
--param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat -Wformat-security
-Werror=format-security -c libgcmd-data.cc -o libgcmd-data.o >/dev/null 2>&1
libgcmd-widget-factory.cc: In function 'GtkWidget*
create_stock_button_with_data(GtkWidget*, gconstpointer, GtkSignalFunc,
gpointer)':
libgcmd-widget-factory.cc:293:84: warning: deprecated conversion from
string constant to 'gchar* {aka char*}' [-Wwrite-strings]
libgcmd-widget-factory.cc: In function 'void create_error_dialog(const
gchar*, ...)':
libgcmd-widget-factory.cc:655:79: error: format not a string literal and
no format arguments [-Werror=format-security]
libgcmd-widget-factory.cc: In function 'void create_warning_dialog(const
gchar*, ...)':
libgcmd-widget-factory.cc:676:49: 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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