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authorCarlos O'Donell <carlos@systemhalted.org>2016-08-01 21:24:59 -0400
committerCarlos O'Donell <carlos@systemhalted.org>2016-08-01 21:24:59 -0400
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@@ -73,8 +73,243 @@ 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.]
+  [1170] localedata: ne_NP: update Nepali locale definition file
+  [3629] manual: stpcpy description in string.texi refers to MS-DOG instead
+    of MS-DOS.
+  [6527] malloc: [powerpc] Malloc alignment insufficient for PowerPC
+  [6796] math: fdim() does not set errno on overflow
+  [10354] libc: posix_spawn should use vfork() in more cases than presently
+  [11213] localedata: localedata: add copyright disclaimer to locale files
+  [12143] localedata: chr_US: new Cherokee locale
+  [12450] localedata: sgs_LT: new locale
+  [12676] localedata: ln_CD: new locale
+  [13237] localedata: LC_ADDRESS.country_name: update all locales w/latest
+    CLDR data
+  [13304] math: fma, fmaf, fmal produce wrong results
+  [14259] build: --localedir arg to configure is ignored
+  [14499] nptl: Does posix_spawn invoke atfork handlers / use vfork?
+  [14750] libc: Race condition in posix_spawn vfork usage vs signal handlers
+  [14934] localedata: es_CL: wrong first weekday chilean locale
+  [15262] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of
+    romanisation
+  [15263] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: inconsistent use of 1/0
+    and +/-
+  [15264] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesstr/nostr: lacking in many locales
+  [15368] nptl: raise() is not async-signal-safe
+  [15479] math: ceil, floor, round and trunc raise inexact exception
+  [15578] localedata: kk_KZ: various updates
+  [16003] localedata: pap_AN: punt old locale
+  [16137] localedata: iw_IL: punt old locale
+  [16190] localedata: eo: new esperanto locale
+  [16374] localedata: lv_LV: change currency symbol in LC_MONETARY to euro
+  [16742] malloc: race condition: pthread_atfork() called before first
+    malloc() results in unexpected locking behaviour/deadlocks
+  [16975] localedata: LC_MESSAGES.yesexpr/noexpr: revisit capitalization in
+    all locales
+  [16983] localedata: postal_fmt does not allow %l and %n modifiers
+  [17565] localedata: pt_PT: wrong (work-)week start
+  [17899] math: [powerpc] floorl returns negative zero with FE_DOWNWARD
+  [17950] build: Build fails with -msse
+  [18205] localedata: be_BY*: wrong first_weekday and first_workday
+  [18433] libc: posix_spawn does not return correctly upon failure to
+    execute
+  [18453] localedata: charmaps/IBM875: incorrect codes
+  [18712] string: bits/string2.h incompatible with -O2 -Werror=packed
+    -Wsystem-headers
+  [18896] localedata: he_IL: improvements for currency
+  [18911] localedata: ro_RO: Correcting week day name for "Tuesday" in
+    Romanian locale data
+  [18960] locale: s390: _nl_locale_subfreeres uses larl opcode on misaligned
+    symbol
+  [19056] libc: Deprecate readdir_r
+  [19133] localedata: pt_*: days & months should be lowercase in Portuguese
+    language
+  [19198] localedata: nl_NL: small improvements for Dutch locales
+  [19257] network: Per-thread memory leak in __res_vinit with IPv6
+    nameservers (CVE-2016-5417)
+  [19269] build: tst-audit4 and tst-audit10 failures with gcc-6 on non avx
+    machine
+  [19400] locale: Language missing in  "iso-639.def", trivial fix in
+    description
+  [19431] malloc: Deadlock between fflush, getdelim, and fork
+  [19505] libc: Incorrect file descriptor validity checks in
+    posix_spawn_file_actions_add{open,close,dup2}
+  [19509] dynamic-link: dlsym, dlvsym do not report errors through dlerror
+    when using RTLD_NEXT
+  [19512] locale: Stale `#ifndef HAVE_BUILTIN_EXPECT' in
+    `intl/{gettextP,loadinfo}.h'
+  [19534] libc: execle, execlp may use malloc
+  [19568] localedata: *_CH: Swiss locales have inconsistent start of week
+  [19573] network: res_nclose and __res_maybe_init disagree about name
+    server initialization, breaking Hesiod
+  [19575] localedata: Status of GB18030 tables
+  [19581] localedata: sr_* date_fmt string contains additional newline
+  [19583] string: SSSE3_Fast_Copy_Backward flag needs to be enabled for AMD
+    Excavator core
+  [19592] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill incorrect in non-default rounding modes
+  [19593] math: [ldbl-128ibm] truncl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
+  [19594] math: [ldbl-128ibm] roundl incorrect in non-default rounding modes
+  [19595] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl incorrect for results in subnormal
+    double range
+  [19602] math: [ldbl-128ibm] fmodl handling of equal arguments with low
+    part zero incorrect
+  [19603] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl, remquol incorrect sign handling in
+    equality tests
+  [19610] dynamic-link: ldconfig -X removes stale symbolic links
+  [19613] libc: s390x (64 bit) macro expansion WCOREDUMP and others
+  [19633] locale: strfmon_l applies global locale to number formatting
+  [19642] network: Memory leak in getnameinfo
+  [19648] libc: test-skeleton.c: Do not set RLIMIT_DATA
+  [19653] libc: Potential for NULL pointer dereference (CWE-476) in
+    glibc-2.22
+  [19654] math: [x86_64] Need testcase for BZ #19590 fix
+  [19671] localedata: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in 'tst-fmon.c' &
+    'tst-numeric.c'
+  [19674] math: [ldbl-128ibm] powl incorrect overflow handling
+  [19677] math: [ldbl-128ibm] remainderl equality test incorrect for zero
+    low part
+  [19678] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nextafterl, nexttowardl incorrect sign of zero
+    result
+  [19679] dynamic-link: gcc-4.9.3 C++ exception handling broken due to
+    unaligned stack
+  [19726] locale: Converting UCS4LE to INTERNAL with iconv() does not update
+    pointers and lengths in error-case.
+  [19727] locale: Converting from/to UTF-xx with iconv() does not always
+    report errors on UTF-16 surrogates values.
+  [19755] nscd: nscd assertion failure in gc
+  [19758] dynamic-link: Typo in EXTRA_LD_ENVVARS for x86-64
+  [19759] libc: mempcpy shouldn't be inlined
+  [19762] dynamic-link: HAS_CPU_FEATURE/HAS_ARCH_FEATURE are easy to misuse
+  [19765] libc: s390 needs an optimized mempcpy
+  [19779] glob: glob: buffer overflow with GLOB_ALTDIRFUNC due to incorrect
+    NAME_MAX limit assumption (CVE-2016-1234)
+  [19783] build: benchtests don't support --enable-hardcoded-path-in-tests
+  [19787] network: Missing and incorrect truncation checks in getnameinfo
+  [19790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl incorrect in non-default rounding
+    modes
+  [19791] network: Assertion failure in res_query.c with un-connectable name
+    server addresses
+  [19792] libc: MIPS: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with makecontext
+  [19822] math: libm.so install clobbers old version
+  [19825] network: resolv: send_vc can return uninitialized data in second
+    response to getaddrinfo
+  [19830] network: nss_dns: should check RDATA length against buffer length
+  [19831] network: nss_dns: getaddrinfo returns uninitialized data when
+    confronted with A/AAAA records of invalid size
+  [19837] nss: nss_db: No retries for some long lines with a larger buffer
+  [19848] math: powl(10,n) for n=-4,-5,-6,-7 is off by more than 1 ULP
+  [19853] stdio: Printing IBM long double in decimal with high precision is
+    sometimes incorrect
+  [19860] build: x86_64: compile errors for tst-audit10 and tst-auditmod10b
+  [19861] nptl: libpthread IFUNC resolver for fork can lead to crash
+  [19862] network: resolv, nss_dns: Remove remaining logging of unexpected
+    record types
+  [19865] network: Assertion failure or memory leak in
+    _nss_dns_getcanonname_r
+  [19868] network: nss_dns: netent code does not skip over non-PTR records
+  [19879] network: nss_dns: Stack overflow in getnetbyname implementation
+    (CVE-2016-3075)
+  [19881] string: Improve x86-64 memset
+  [19907] string: Incorrect memcpy tests
+  [19916] dynamic-link: S390: fprs/vrs are not saved/restored while
+    resolving symbols
+  [19925] libc: termios.h XCASE namespace
+  [19928] string: memmove-vec-unaligned-erms.S is slow with large data size
+  [19929] libc: limits.h NL_NMAX namespace
+  [19931] stdio: Memory leak in vfprintf
+  [19957] libc: clone(CLONE_VM) access invalid parent memory
+  [19963] localedata: en_IL: New locale
+  [19989] stdio: stdio.h cuserid namespace
+  [19994] network: getaddrinfo does not restore RES_USE_INET6 flag in
+    gethosts
+  [19996] locale: langinfo.h nl_langinfo_l namespace
+  [20005] stdio: fflush on a file opened with fmemopen resets position to 0
+  [20010] network: getaddrinfo: Stack overflow in hostent translation
+    (CVE-2016-3706)
+  [20012] stdio: libio: fmemopen append mode failure
+  [20014] stdio: stdio.h namespace for pre-threads POSIX
+  [20017] network: resolv: Use gmtime_r instead of gmtime in p_secstodate
+  [20023] libc: fcntl.h timespec namespace
+  [20024] math: [x86_64] vectorized sincos trashes the stack
+  [20031] network: nss_hesiod: Heap overflow in get_txt_records
+  [20041] time: sys/time.h timespec namespace
+  [20043] libc: unistd.h missing cuserid for UNIX98 and before
+  [20044] libc: unistd.h missing pthread_atfork for UNIX98
+  [20051] libc: ttyslot in wrong header under wrong conditions
+  [20054] libc: gethostname not declared for XPG4
+  [20055] libc: termios.h missing tcgetsid for XPG4
+  [20072] dynamic-link: x86 init_cpu_features is called twice in static
+    executable
+  [20073] libc: sys/stat.h fchmod namespace
+  [20074] libc: stdlib.h rand_r namespace
+  [20076] libc: sys/stat.h missing S_IFSOCK, S_ISSOCK for XPG4
+  [20094] libc: stdlib.h should not declare grantpt, ptsname, unlockpt for
+    XPG3
+  [20111] libc: struct sockaddr_storage cannot be aggregate-copied
+  [20112] network: sunrpc: stack (frame) overflow in Sun RPC clntudp_call
+    (CVE-2016-4429)
+  [20115] string: Extra alignment in memset-vec-unaligned-erms.S
+  [20119] libc: Wrong mask for processors level type from CPUID
+  [20139] dynamic-link: Upper part of zmm is zeroed if Glibc is built with
+    AS not supporting AVX512
+  [20151] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] j0l, j1l, y0l, y1l return sNaN for
+    sNaN argument
+  [20153] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sqrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
+  [20156] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ceill, rintl etc. return sNaN for sNaN
+    argument
+  [20157] math: [powerpc] fabsl (sNaN) wrongly raises "invalid"
+  [20160] math: [powerpc] ceil, rint etc. return sNaN for sNaN input
+  [20178] libc: posix_spawn{p} should not call exit
+  [20191] stdio: libio: vtables hardening
+  [20195] string: FMA4 detection requires CPUID execution with register
+    eax=0x80000001
+  [20198] libc: quick_exit incorrectly destroys C++11 thread objects.
+  [20205] math: [i386/x86_64] nextafterl incorrect incrementing negative
+    subnormals
+  [20212] math: acos (sNaN) returns sNaN
+  [20213] math: asin (sNaN) returns sNaN
+  [20214] network: Linux header sync with linux/in6.h and ipv6.h again.
+  [20218] math: [i386] asinhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
+  [20219] math: [i386] atanhl (sNaN) returns sNaN
+  [20222] stdio: fopencookie: Mangle function pointers
+  [20224] math: [i386] cbrtl (sNaN) returns sNaN
+  [20225] math: ldexp, scalbn, scalbln return sNaN for sNaN input
+  [20226] math: [i386/x86_64] expl, exp10l, expm1l return sNaN for sNaN
+    input
+  [20227] math: [i386/x86_64] logl (sNaN) returns sNaN
+  [20228] math: [i386/x86_64] log10l (sNaN) returns sNaN
+  [20229] math: [i386/x86_64] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
+  [20232] math: [ldbl-128] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
+  [20233] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expm1l (sNaN) returns sNaN
+  [20234] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (sNaN) returns sNaN
+  [20235] math: [i386/x86_64] log2l (sNaN) returns sNaN
+  [20237] nss: nss_db: get*ent segfaults without preceding set*ent
+  [20240] math: modf (sNaN) returns sNaN
+  [20248] libc: debug/tst-longjump_chk2 calls printf from a signal handler
+  [20250] math: frexp (sNaN) returns sNaN
+  [20252] math: atan2 (sNaN, qNaN) fails to raise "invalid"
+  [20255] math: [i386] fdim, fdimf return with excess range and precision /
+    double rounding
+  [20256] math: [i386/x86_64] fdiml returns sNaN for sNaN input
+  [20260] string: ../sysdeps/x86/bits/string.h:1092:3: error: array
+    subscript is below array bounds [-Werror=array-bounds]
+  [20262] nis: _nss_nis_initgroups_dyn always returns NSS_STATUS_NOTFOUND
+  [20263] nptl: robust mutex deadlocks if other thread requests timedlock
+    (Only arm/linux)
+  [20277] libc: $dp is not initialized correctly in sysdeps/hppa/start.S
+  [20284] malloc: malloc: Corrupt arena avoidance causes unnecessary mmap
+    fallbacks
+  [20296] math: [i386/x86_64] scalbl returns sNaN for sNaN input, missing
+    "invalid" exceptions
+  [20314] nptl: make[4]: *** [/usr/include/stdlib.h] Error 1
+  [20316] localedata: id_ID: Februari instead of Pebruari
+  [20327] string: POWER8 strcasecmp returns incorrect result
+  [20347] math: Failure: Test: j0_downward (0xap+0)
+  [20348] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev64
+  [20349] libc: 64-bit value is passed differently in p{readv,writev}{64}
+  [20350] libc: There is no test for p{read,write}64
+  [20357] math: Incorrect cos result for 1.5174239687223976
+  [20384] build: Don't run libmvec-sincos-avx* tests on non avx machines
 
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