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authorCarlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>2018-08-01 01:10:47 -0400
committerCarlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>2018-08-01 01:10:47 -0400
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Update NEWS, version.h, and features.h for glibc 2.28. glibc-2.28
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@@ -242,8 +242,186 @@ Security related changes:
 
 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
 
-  [The release manager will add the list generated by
-  scripts/list-fixed-bugs.py just before the release.]
+  [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
+  [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
+  [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
+    when __WORDSIZE != 64
+  [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
+  [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
+  [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
+  [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
+  [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
+    14651
+  [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
+  [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
+  [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
+  [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
+  [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
+    conversion is given
+  [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
+    date
+  [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
+  [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
+    scope with -O1 and higher
+  [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
+  [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
+  [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
+  [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
+  [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
+  [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
+  [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
+    horrible machine code)
+  [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
+    last constant.
+  [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
+  [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
+    symbols
+  [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
+  [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
+    defined
+  [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
+  [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
+  [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
+  [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
+  [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
+    fpscr.c'
+  [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
+    idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
+  [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
+    stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
+  [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
+    the base address
+  [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
+  [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
+  [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
+    open_verify
+  [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
+  [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
+  [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
+  [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
+    malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
+  [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
+  [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
+  [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
+  [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
+  [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
+  [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
+  [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
+  [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
+    dlopen
+  [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
+    AT_SECURE=1
+  [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
+  [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
+    puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
+  [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
+  [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
+  [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and  other es_* locales):  collation
+    should treat ñ  as a primary different character,  sync the collation
+    for Spanish with CLDR
+  [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
+    by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
+  [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
+  [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
+    crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
+  [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
+    es_BO
+  [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
+    CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
+  [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
+  [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
+    `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
+  [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
+    dlopen failures
+  [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
+    to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
+  [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
+    through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
+  [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
+  [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
+  [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
+  [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
+  [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
+  [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
+  [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
+  [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
+  [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
+  [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
+  [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
+  [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
+  [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
+    makecontext
+  [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
+  [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
+    required
+  [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
+  [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
+  [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
+  [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
+  [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
+  [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
+    disabled
+  [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
+    failure
+  [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
+  [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
+  [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
+  [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
+  [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
+  [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
+  [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
+    patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
+  [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
+    and libc build with -Os)
+  [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
+  [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
+  [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
+  [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
+  [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
+    that changes /etc/passwd
+  [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
+    (CVE-2018-11237)
+  [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
+  [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
+  [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
+    posix/regcomp.c
+  [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
+  [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
+  [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
+    -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
+  [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
+    AT_SECURE
+  [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
+  [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
+    parser.c
+  [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
+  [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
+  [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
+  [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
+    directed rounding
+  [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
+  [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
+    '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
+  [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
+    lookup
+  [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
+    interposition
+  [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
+    DSO boundaries.
+  [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
+    <linux/time.h>
+  [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
+    checking
+  [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
+  [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
+  [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
+  [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
+  [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
+  [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
+  [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
+  [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
+    processors
+  [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
 
 
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