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authorAdhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>2016-02-18 15:51:45 -0200
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@@ -105,10 +105,272 @@ Security related changes:
reporting the security impact of this issue, and Robert Holiday of
Ciena for reporting the related bug 18665. (CVE-2015-7547)
-* 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.]
+The following bugs are resolved with this release:
+
+ [89] localedata: Locales nb_NO and nn_NO should transliterate æøå
+ [887] math: Math library function "logb" and "nextafter" inconsistent
+ [2542] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
+ [2543] math: Incorrect return from float gamma (-0X1.9260DCP+1)
+ [2558] math: Incorrect return from double gamma (-0X1.FA471547C2FE5P+1)
+ [2898] libc: [improve] warning: the use of `mktemp' is dangerous, better
+ use `mkstemp'
+ [4404] localedata: German translation of "Alarm clock" is misleading
+ [6799] math: nextafter() and nexttoward() doen't set errno on
+ overflow/underflow errors
+ [6803] math: scalb(), scalbln(), scalbn() do not set errno on
+ overflow/underflow
+ [10432] nis: _nss_nis_setnetgrent assertion failure
+ [11460] libc: fts has no LFS support
+ [12926] network: getaddrinfo()/make_request() may spin forever
+ [13065] nptl: Race condition in pthread barriers
+ [13690] nptl: pthread_mutex_unlock potentially cause invalid access
+ [14341] dynamic-link: Dynamic linker crash when DT_JMPREL and DT_REL{,A}
+ are not contiguous
+ [14551] math: [ldbl-128ibm] strtold overflow handling for IBM long double
+ [14912] libc: Rename non-installed bits/*.h headers
+ [15002] libc: Avoid undefined behavior in posix_fallocate overflow check
+ [15367] math: Let gcc use __builtin_isinf
+ [15384] math: One constant fewer in ieee754/dbl-64/wordsize-64/s_finite.c
+ [15421] math: lgamma wrongly sets signgam for ISO C
+ [15470] math: [arm] On ARM llrintl() and llroundl() do not raise
+ FE_INVALID with argument out of range
+ [15491] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 nearbyint implementations wrongly clear
+ all exceptions
+ [15786] dynamic-link: ifunc resolver functions can smash function
+ arguments
+ [15918] math: Unnecessary check for equality in hypotf()
+ [16061] localedata: Review / update transliteration data
+ [16068] math: [i386/x86_64] x86 and x86_64 fesetenv exclude state they
+ should include
+ [16141] time: strptime %z offset restriction
+ [16171] math: drem should be alias of remainder
+ [16296] math: fegetround is pure?
+ [16347] math: [ldbl-128ibm] ldbl-128/e_lgammal_r.c may not be suitable.
+ [16364] libc: sleep may leave SIGCHLD blocked on sync cancellation on
+ GNU/Linux
+ [16399] math: [mips] lrint / llrint / lround / llround missing exceptions
+ [16415] math: Clean up ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm expm1l for large positive
+ arguments
+ [16422] math: [powerpc] math-float, math-double failing llrint tests with
+ "Exception "Inexact" set" on ppc32
+ [16495] localedata: nl_NL: date_fmt: shuffle year/month around
+ [16517] math: Missing underflow exception from tanf/tan/tanl
+ [16519] math: Missing underflow exception from sinhf
+ [16520] math: Missing underflow exception from tanhf
+ [16521] math: Missing underflow exception from exp2
+ [16620] math: [ldbl-128ibm] exp10l spurious overflows / bad directed
+ rounding results
+ [16734] stdio: fopen calls mmap to allocate its buffer
+ [16961] math: nan function incorrect handling of bad sequences
+ [16962] math: nan function unbounded stack allocation (CVE-2014-9761)
+ [16973] localedata: Fix lang_lib/lang_term as per ISO 639-2
+ [16985] locale: localedef: confusing error message when opening output
+ fails
+ [17118] math: ctanh(INFINITY + 2 * I) returns incorrect value
+ [17197] locale: Redundant shift character in iconv conversion output at
+ block boundary
+ [17243] libc: trunk/posix/execl.c:53: va_args problem ?
+ [17244] libc: trunk/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/semctl.c:116: va_args muxup ?
+ [17250] dynamic-link: static linking breaks nss loading
+ (getaddrinfo/getpwnam/etc...)
+ [17404] libc: atomic_exchange_rel lacking a barrier on MIPS16, GCC before
+ 4.7?
+ [17441] math: isnan() should use __builtin_isnan() in GCC
+ [17514] nptl: Assert failure unlocking ERRORCHECK mutex after timedlock
+ (related to lock elision)
+ [17787] manual: Exponent on page 324 of the PDF ends prematurely
+ [17886] time: strptime should be able to parse "Z" as a timezone with %z
+ [17887] time: strptime should be able to parse "+01:00" style timezones
+ [17905] libc: catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
+ (CVE-2015-8779)
+ [18084] libc: backtrace (..., 0) dumps core on x86
+ [18086] libc: nice() sets errno to 0 on success
+ [18240] libc: hcreate, hcreate_r should fail with ENOMEM if element count
+ is too large (CVE-2015-8778)
+ [18251] dynamic-link: SONAME missing when audit modules provides path
+ [18265] libc: add attributes for wchar string and memory functions
+ [18370] math: csqrt missing underflows
+ [18421] libc: [hppa] read-only segment has dynamic relocations
+ [18472] libc: Obsolete syscall wrappers should be compat symbols
+ [18480] libc: hppa glibc miscompilation in sched_setaffinity()
+ [18491] localedata: Update tr_TR LC_CTYPE as part of Unicode updates
+ [18525] localedata: Remove locale timezone information
+ [18560] libc: [powerpc] spurious bits/ipc.h definitions
+ [18568] localedata: Update locale data to Unicode 8.0
+ [18589] locale: sort-test.sh fails at random
+ [18595] math: ctan, ctanh missing underflows
+ [18604] libc: assert macro-expands its argument
+ [18610] math: S390: fetestexcept() reports any exception if DXC-code
+ contains a vector instruction exception.
+ [18611] math: j1, jn missing errno setting on underflow
+ [18618] localedata: sync Chechen locale definitions with other *_RU
+ locales
+ [18647] math: powf(-0x1.000002p0, 0x1p30) returns 0 instead of +inf
+ [18661] libc: Some x86-64 assembly codes don't align stack to 16 bytes
+ [18665] network: In send_dg, the recvfrom function is NOT always using the
+ buffer size of a newly created buffer (CVE-2015-7547)
+ [18674] libc: [i386] trunk/sysdeps/i386/tst-auditmod3b.c:84: possible
+ missing break ?
+ [18675] libc: fpathconf(_PC_NAME_MAX) fails against large filesystems for
+ 32bit processes
+ [18681] libc: regexp.h is obsolete and buggy, and should be desupported
+ [18699] math: tilegx cproj() for various complex infinities does not yield
+ infinity
+ [18724] libc: Harden put*ent functions against data injection
+ [18743] nptl: PowerPC: findutils testcase fails with --enable-lock-elision
+ [18755] build: build errors with -DNDEBUG
+ [18757] stdio: fmemopen fails to set errno on failure
+ [18778] dynamic-link: ld.so crashes if failed dlopen causes libpthread to
+ be forced unloaded
+ [18781] libc: openat64 lacks O_LARGEFILE
+ [18787] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/atomic.h:71:6:
+ error: can’t find a register in class ‘R1_REGS’ while reloading ‘asm’
+ [18789] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl inaccurate near 0
+ [18790] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate
+ [18795] libc: stpncpy fortification misses buffer lengths that are
+ statically too large
+ [18796] build: build fails for --disable-mathvec
+ [18803] math: hypot missing underflows
+ [18820] stdio: fmemopen may leak memory on failure
+ [18823] math: csqrt spurious underflows
+ [18824] math: fma spurious underflows
+ [18825] math: pow missing underflows
+ [18857] math: [ldbl-128ibm] nearbyintl wrongly uses signaling comparisons
+ [18868] nptl: pthread_barrier_init typo has in-theory-undefined behavior
+ [18870] build: sem_open.c fails to compile with missing symbol
+ FUTEX_SHARED
+ [18872] stdio: Fix memory leak in printf_positional
+ [18873] libc: posix_fallocate overflow check ineffective
+ [18875] math: Excess precision leads incorrect libm
+ [18877] libc: arm: mmap offset regression
+ [18887] libc: memory corruption when using getmntent on blank lines
+ [18918] localedata: hu_HU: change time to HH:MM:SS format
+ [18921] libc: Regression: extraneous stat() and fstat() performed by
+ opendir()
+ [18928] dynamic-link: LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged
+ binaries (CVE-2015-8777)
+ [18951] math: tgamma missing underflows
+ [18952] math: [ldbl-128/ldbl-128ibm] lgammal spurious "invalid", incorrect
+ signgam
+ [18953] localedata: lt_LT: change currency symbol to the euro
+ [18956] math: powf inaccuracy
+ [18961] math: [i386] exp missing underflows
+ [18966] math: [i386] exp10 missing underflows
+ [18967] math: math.h XSI POSIX namespace (gamma, isnan, scalb)
+ [18969] build: multiple string test failures due to missing locale
+ dependencies
+ [18970] libc: Reference of pthread_setcancelstate in libc.a
+ [18977] math: float / long double Bessel functions not in XSI POSIX
+ [18980] math: i386 libm functions return with excess range and precision
+ [18981] math: i386 scalb*, ldexp return with excess range and precision
+ [18982] stdio: va_list and vprintf
+ [18985] time: Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault
+ (CVE-2015-8776)
+ [19003] math: [x86_64] fma4 version of pow inappropriate contraction
+ [19007] libc: FAIL: elf/check-localplt with -z now and binutils 2.26
+ [19012] locale: iconv_open leaks memory on error path
+ [19016] math: clog, clog10 inaccuracy
+ [19018] nptl: Mangle function pointers in tls_dtor_list
+ [19032] math: [i386] acosh (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
+ [19046] math: ldbl-128 / ldbl-128ibm lgamma bad overflow handling
+ [19048] malloc: malloc: arena free list can become cyclic, increasing
+ contention
+ [19049] math: [powerpc] erfc incorrect zero sign
+ [19050] math: [powerpc] log* incorrect zero sign
+ [19058] math: [x86_64] Link fail with -fopenmp and -flto
+ [19059] math: nexttoward overflow incorrect in non-default rounding modes
+ [19071] math: ldbl-96 lroundl incorrect just below powers of 2
+ [19074] network: Data race in _res_hconf_reorder_addrs
+ [19076] math: [ldbl-128ibm] log1pl (-1) wrong sign of infinity
+ [19077] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl (1) incorrect sign of zero result
+ [19078] math: [ldbl-128ibm] expl overflow incorrect in non-default
+ rounding modes
+ [19079] math: dbl-64/wordsize-64 lround based on llround incorrect for
+ ILP32
+ [19085] math: ldbl-128 lrintl, lroundl missing exceptions for 32-bit long
+ [19086] manual: posix_fallocate64 documented argument order is wrong.
+ [19088] math: lround, llround missing exceptions close to overflow
+ threshold
+ [19094] math: lrint, llrint missing exceptions close to overflow threshold
+ [19095] math: dbl-64 lrint incorrect for 64-bit long
+ [19122] dynamic-link: Unnecessary PLT relocations in librtld.os
+ [19124] dynamic-link: ld.so failed to build with older assmebler
+ [19125] math: [powerpc32] llroundf, llround incorrect exceptions
+ [19129] dynamic-link: [arm] Concurrent lazy TLSDESC resolution can crash
+ [19134] math: [powerpc32] lround, lroundf spurious exceptions
+ [19137] libc: i386/epoll_pwait.S doesn't support cancellation
+ [19143] nptl: Remove CPU set size checking from sched_setaffinity,
+ pthread_setaffinity_np
+ [19156] math: [ldbl-128] j0l spurious underflows
+ [19164] nptl: tst-getcpu fails with many possible CPUs
+ [19168] math: math/test-ildoubl and math/test-ldouble failure
+ [19174] nptl: PowerPC: TLE enabled pthread mutex performs poorly.
+ [19178] dynamic-link: ELF_RTYPE_CLASS_EXTERN_PROTECTED_DATA confuses
+ prelink
+ [19181] math: [i386/x86_64] fesetenv (FE_DFL_ENV), fesetenv
+ (FE_NOMASK_ENV) do not clear SSE exceptions
+ [19182] malloc: malloc deadlock between ptmalloc_lock_all and
+ _int_new_arena/reused_arena
+ [19189] math: [ldbl-128] log1pl (-qNaN) spurious "invalid" exception
+ [19201] math: dbl-64 remainder incorrect sign of zero result
+ [19205] math: bits/math-finite.h conditions do not match math.h and
+ bits/mathcalls.h
+ [19209] math: bits/math-finite.h wrongly maps ldexp to scalbn
+ [19211] math: lgamma functions do not set signgam for -ffinite-math-only
+ for C99-based standards
+ [19212] libc: features.h not -Wundef clean
+ [19213] math: [i386/x86_64] log* (1) incorrect zero sign for -ffinite-
+ math-only
+ [19214] libc: Family and model identification for AMD CPU's are incorrect.
+ [19219] libc: GLIBC build fails for ia64 with missing __nearbyintl
+ [19228] math: [powerpc] nearbyint wrongly clears "inexact", leaves traps
+ disabled
+ [19235] math: [powerpc64] lround, lroundf, llround, llroundf spurious
+ "inexact" exceptions
+ [19238] math: [powerpc] round, roundf spurious "inexact" for integer
+ arguments
+ [19242] libc: strtol incorrect in Turkish locales
+ [19243] malloc: reused_arena can pick an arena on the free list, leading
+ to an assertion failure and reference count corruption
+ [19253] time: tzset() ineffective when temporary TZ did not include DST
+ rules
+ [19266] math: strtod ("NAN(I)") incorrect in Turkish locales
+ [19270] math: [hppa] Shared libm missing __isnanl
+ [19285] libc: [hppa] sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/hppa/bits/mman.h: missing
+ MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK defines
+ [19313] nptl: Wrong __cpu_mask for x32
+ [19347] libc: grantpt: try to force a specific gid even without pt_chown
+ [19349] math: [ldbl-128ibm] tanhl inaccurate for small arguments
+ [19350] math: [ldbl-128ibm] sinhl spurious overflows
+ [19351] math: [ldbl-128ibm] logl inaccurate near 1
+ [19363] time: x32: times() return value wrongly truncates/sign extends
+ from 32bit
+ [19367] dynamic-link: Improve branch prediction on Silvermont
+ [19369] network: Default domain name not reset by res_ninit when "search"
+ / "domain" entry is removed from resolv.conf
+ [19375] math: powerpc: incorrect results for POWER7 logb with negative
+ subnormals
+ [19385] localedata: bg_BG: time separator should be colon, not comma
+ [19408] libc: linux personality syscall wrapper may erroneously return an
+ error on 32-bit architectures
+ [19415] libc: dladdr returns wrong names on hppa
+ [19432] libc: iconv rejects redundant escape sequences in IBM900, IBM903,
+ IBM905, IBM907, and IBM909
+ [19439] math: Unix98 isinf and isnan functions conflict with C++11
+ [19443] build: build failures with -DDEBUG
+ [19451] build: Make check fails on test-double-vlen2
+ [19462] libc: Glibc failed to build with -Os
+ [19465] math: Wrong code with -Os
+ [19466] time: time/tst-mktime2.c is compiled into an infinite loop with
+ -Os
+ [19467] string: Fast_Unaligned_Load needs to be enabled for Excavator core
+ CPU's.
+ [19475] libc: Glibc 2.22 doesn't build on sparc [PATCH]
+ [19486] math: S390: Math tests fail with "Exception Inexact set".
+ [19529] libc: [ARM]: FAIL: stdlib/tst-makecontext
+ [19550] libc: [mips] mmap negative offset handling inconsistent with other
+ architectures
+ [19590] math: Fail to build shared objects that use libmvec.so functions.
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