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 2017-08-16  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@suse.de>
 
+	[BZ #16750]
+	CVE-2009-5064
 	* elf/ldd.bash.in: Never run file directly.
 
 2017-08-15  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
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 Security related changes:
 
-  [Add security related changes here]
+  CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
+  examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
+  dynamic linker.  (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
+  vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
+  script.)
 
 The following bugs are resolved with this release: