NB the readelf commands used above come from https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/Roadmap/ExecutableStacks
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to nvidia-graphics-drivers-470 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1974091 Title: no-longer-needed build-dep on execstack Status in nvidia-graphics-drivers-470 package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: The nvidia packages in Ubuntu have a build-dep on execstack, as requested in bug #409456. That bug was filed 13 years ago, about the fact that the upstream binaries were built with executable stack. They've been rebuilt a few times since then, and there are no longer any upstream binaries with an executable stack: $ find NVIDIA-Linux/ -name *.so* | xargs -n1 readelf -lW | grep GNU_STACK.*E $ readelf -SW NVIDIA-Linux/nvidia-{smi,xconfig,persistenced} | grep GNU_STACK.*E $ So the current use of execstack is a no-op. The execstack binary is built from prelink, which was dropped from Debian over a year ago. Please drop this build-dependency from all the nvidia packages so that we can drop prelink from the archive. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-470/+bug/1974091/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
