[gnutls-devel] GnuTLS | nettle's gnutls_crypto_init() causes segfault in unrelated gmp code during static destructors (#1398)

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Andreas Metzler commented on a discussion: https://gitlab.com/gnutls/gnutls/-/issues/1398#note_1071554068

Daiki Ueno @dueno wrote
> the current alternatives under discussion are:
>
> -   switch mpz_ usage in Nettle and GnuTLS to using the low-level mpn_ functions, and implement zeroization directly
> -   link to a static library of GMP so the call to mp_set_memory_functions doesn't affect other GMP users
>
>While the former would be better in the long run, it would require significant effort in porting. The latter would be simpler, though it would slightly increase the library size (see !1635 and the example usage in nettle and gnutls packages in CentOS Stream 9).

Increased size is not the only downside, any (security, serious, ...) issue in GMP would only be fixed in GnuTLS _if_ it was rebuilt against a fixed version of GMP. (Increased memory usage is another, but less significant point.)

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