Bug 984185

Have you considered the perl is also used for short-time scripts? Are you going to promote any interpreter (python, tcl, bash, pl, etc.) for hardening?

clearly yes and sooner or later hopefully the whole distribution get hardened and prelink banned, until then at least "checksec --proc-all" on servers should not list anything without "Full RELRO" and PIE-code

I was speaking to the Security team, because I was interested in their point of view. The common practice until now was "add the full relro to long time running apps, especially daemons".

In opinion of Security team, languages don't need full relro if they don't write into pointers like this example: http://cs.potsdam.edu/cgi-bin/man/man2html?Glib::Object+3 Glib::Object->new_from_pointer

Therefore Perl is a good candidate for full relro. I would like to see analysis of slowdown of Perl examples and also all major components before we start changing partial relro into full relro. I'd rather see same approach for whole distribution than accidentally changing some apps.

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when i see the recent changelog this should be fixed better sooner than later

* Fr Jan 20 2017 Petr Pisar <ppisar> - 4:5.22.3-367
- Fix a buffer overflow in split in scalar context (RT#130262)
- Fix a heap overflow with pack "W" (RT129149)
- Fix a use-after-free when processing scalar variables in forms (RT#129125)
- Fix a heap overflow if invalid octal or hexadecimal number is used in
  transliteration expression (RT#129342)
- Fix out-of-bound read in case of unmatched regexp backreference (RT#129377)

> I would like to see analysis of slowdown of Perl 
> examples and also all major components before we 
> start changing partial relro into full relro

security first

"grep" become noticeable slower in F23 as hardened build, in F24 it is stil hardened but has the same impressive performance than in F22 or older releases, so something got optimized

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Perl 5.26.0 is built as PIE, it's still missing full RELRO. Merging this request to similar bug #1238804.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1238804 ***