From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030722 Galeon/1.3.8 Description of problem: When building the util-linux package, the warning message appears: + cd rescuept + cc -O2 -g -pipe -march=i686 -o rescuept rescuept.c /tmp/cc5oZ991.o(.text+0x35): In function `read_sectors': /usr/src/redhat/BUILD/util-linux-2.11y/rescuept/rescuept.c:59: the `llseek' function may be dangerous; use `lseek64' instead. + cd .. I'm not sure if there is a potential vulnerability in the rescuept program/library as a result, but it may want to be looked at. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): util-linux-2.11y-29 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. see description 2. 3. Actual Results: You see the warning in the build process above. Expected Results: No warning message saying that a particular function being used is considered dangerous. Additional info:
Note the use of the word "may" in the warning message. Really doesn't matter... If you have a chance, a patch would be great.
Patched to just use plain lseek and compile with _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64