I just reinstalled some of my servers with my beloved combo : gentoo & XFS <3 When I was trying to upgrade my gcc version from 7.3 to 8.2 I got the following error : <pre class="wp-block-code">``` checking for uintptr_t... * /var/tmp/portage/sys-apps/sandbox-2.13/work/sandbox-2.13/libsandbox/libsandbox.c:check_syscall():968: failure (Value too large for defined data type): * ISE: fopen_wr(conftest.val) abs_path: (null) res_path: /var/tmp/portage/sys-devel/gcc-8.2.0-r6/work/build/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/32/libatomic/conftest.val configure: error: Could not determine word size. I finally found in that very old gentoo forum post and bug report that XFS is the rootcause.

Des chercheurs de Qualys ont découvert 3 failles de sécurité dans journald qui permet une escalade de privilège. Des PoC ont été fait et cela prend 10minutes sur i386 et 70minutes sur amd64. Attention donc, car tous les patchs ne sont pas encore dispo. Ci dessous le résumé provenant de chez qualys: ========= Summary ========= We discovered three vulnerabilities in systemd-journald (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Systemd): – CVE-2018-16864 and CVE-2018-16865, two memory corruptions (attacker-controlled alloca()s);