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diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index de7bf22aa4..a3278be684 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -225,6 +225,18 @@ Changes to build and runtime requirements: source tree. ChangeLog files are located in the ChangeLog.old directory as ChangeLog.N where the highest N has the latest entries. +* On Linux, the system administrator needs to configure /dev/pts with + the intended access modes for pseudo-terminals. glibc no longer + attemps to adjust permissions of terminal devices. The previous glibc + defaults ("tty" group, user read/write and group write) already + corresponded to what most systems used, so that grantpt did not + perform any adjustments. + +* On Linux, the posix_openpt and getpt functions no longer attempt to + use legacy (BSD) pseudo-terminals and assume that if /dev/ptmx exists + (and pseudo-terminals are supported), a devpts file system is mounted + on /dev/pts. Current systems already meet these requirements. + Security related changes: CVE-2019-19126: ld.so failed to ignore the LD_PREFER_MAP_32BIT_EXEC |