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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2009-05-15 19:28:04 -0700
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2009-05-15 19:37:13 -0700
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Check for valid stack frame in longjmp.
If longjmp restores the stack frame to an address which is beyond the stack frame at the time of the longjmp call it would install an uninitialized stack frame. If compiled with _FORTIFY_SOURCE defined, longjmp will now bail out in this situation.
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-GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2009-4-23
+GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. 2009-5-15
Copyright (C) 1992-2008, 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end for copying conditions.
Please send GNU C library bug reports via <http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/>
using `glibc' in the "product" field.
+Version 2.11
+
+* checking version of longjmp added that fails if an uninitialized stack
+ frame would be created. Implemented by Ulrich Drepper.
+
+
Version 2.10
* New interfaces: preadv, preadv64, pwritev, pwritev64, malloc_info