The above image was build by manually adding the patched util-linux
libuuid.so to the initramfs. The kernel (snap) build system does not use
-proposed so the initrd had to be updated this way to test this on core.
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I validated this by using this new core18 image
http://people.canonical.com/~mvo/tmp/core18-amd64-18-alpha20180803-with-lp1783810.img.xz
It is working now
** Changed in: util-linux (Ubuntu)
Assignee: (unassigned) => Sergio Cazzolato (sergio-j-cazzolato)
** Changed in: util-linux (Ubuntu Bio
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Title:
[SRU] blocks boot on core18
Status in util-linux package in U
I think this is acceptable from a security point of view, especially
since this is an upstream change.
Before randutils.c implemented support for the getrandom() call, it used
/dev/urandom. The patch simply falls back to using /dev/urandom if there
is no enough entropy for getrandom().
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Thanks for your careful review Robie! As far as security is concerned, upstream
comments on this in edc1c90cb972fdca1f66be5a8e2b0706bd2a4949:
"""
Note that we do not use random numbers for security sensitive things
like keys or so. It's used for random based UUIDs etc.
"""
I looked at the u
Hello Michael, or anyone else affected,
Accepted util-linux into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and
be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/util-
linux/2.31.1-0.4ubuntu3.2 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed
repository.
Please help us by testing this new package.
Hi Michael,
What else uses this function, and does it do it in a security sensitive
way whose behaviour is now changed possibly for the worse? I understand
that the change is from upstream so they consider it OK, but that
doesn't placate my concern completely.
Second, I found https://git.kernel.o
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