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lib/58839: libpcap leaks internal symbols



>Number:         58839
>Category:       lib
>Synopsis:       libpcap leaks internal symbols
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    lib-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Nov 21 21:10:00 +0000 2024
>Originator:     Taylor R Campbell
>Release:        current, 10, 9, ...
>Organization:
The NetBSymbolD Pcapturation
>Environment:
>Description:
Upstream builds libpcap.so with -fvisibility=hidden and marks exported symbols explicitly, but we don't pass -fvisibility=hidden so loads of obviously internal symbols like find_dev, finish_parse, gen_or, sappend, sdup, sf_cleanup, and sock_send are all exported.
>How-To-Repeat:
nm, code inspection
>Fix:
Like with libarchive (PR lib/58829: libarchive exports excess symbols, https://gnats.NetBSD.org/58829), we should build with -fvisibility=hidden although this means dropping some symbols in the current library.



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