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GNU C Library Lands Workaround After Breaking Various Steam Games, Discord & Other Apps
The release of the GNU C Library 2.41 at the end of January ended up inadvertently breaking some Steam games, Discord, Julia, MATLAB, and other select user-space software
In early February a Sourceware.org bug report was filed by Arch Linux developers over Glibc 2.41's dlopen / execstack handling breaking various apps: "We over at Arch Linux have a received a few regression reports about various downstream projects impacted by the "dlopen and dlmopen no longer make the stack executable if a shared library requires it" change that was mentioned in the 2.41 release announcement...It's mainly closed source apps like "discord", some Steam games, but also "julia" language and possibly a few others... This commit today to the mainline GNU C Library codebase extends the "glibc.rtld.execstack" tunable to force an executable stack.
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