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authorJan-Arve Sæther <jan-arve.saether@nokia.com>2010-08-31 08:23:30 (GMT)
committerJan-Arve Sæther <jan-arve.saether@nokia.com>2010-09-03 08:22:25 (GMT)
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Ensure that we load system libraries from the correct location.
This was a security hole that has been there for a while, but the public awareness have recently rised so the threat is more imminent now. The solution is to fix all places where we dynamically load system libraries. More specifically, we now load all system libraries with an absolute path that points to a library in the system directory (usually c:\windows\system32). We therefore introduce a small class named QSystemLibrary that only loads libraries located in the system path. This shares some of the API with QLibrary (in order to make the patch as small as possible). We don't fix QLibrary due to risk of regressions. In addition, applications can fix the code that calls QLibrary themselves. The problem does not apply to Windows CE, since the search order is documented as not searching in the current directory. However, it touches some CE-specific code - therefore QSystemLibrary is sometimes used on WinCE (however, it will just do a normal LoadLibrary() since its safe anyway). This change does not affect the testability plugin (it is not clearly documented where that plugin is located, and the plugin should never be used in production code anyway) Loading OpenSSL libraries The ssl libraries are handled specially, and searched in this order (we cannot expect them to always be in the system folder): 1. Application path 2. System libraries path 3. Trying all paths inside the PATH environment variable Task-number: QT-3825 Reviewed-by: Thiago Macieira Reviewed-by: Peter Hartmann
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-rw-r--r--src/tools/bootstrap/bootstrap.pro3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/tools/bootstrap/bootstrap.pro b/src/tools/bootstrap/bootstrap.pro
index 0dbb90f..21fd412 100644
--- a/src/tools/bootstrap/bootstrap.pro
+++ b/src/tools/bootstrap/bootstrap.pro
@@ -87,7 +87,8 @@ unix:SOURCES += ../../corelib/io/qfsfileengine_unix.cpp \
../../corelib/io/qfsfileengine_iterator_unix.cpp
win32:SOURCES += ../../corelib/io/qfsfileengine_win.cpp \
- ../../corelib/io/qfsfileengine_iterator_win.cpp
+ ../../corelib/io/qfsfileengine_iterator_win.cpp \
+ ../../corelib/plugin/qsystemlibrary.cpp \
macx: {
QMAKE_MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET = 10.4 #enables weak linking for 10.4 (exported)