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.]
+ [1190] stdio: fgetc()/fread() behaviour is not POSIX compliant
+ [6889] manual: 'PWD' mentioned but not specified
+ [13575] libc: SSIZE_MAX defined as LONG_MAX is inconsistent with ssize_t,
+ when __WORDSIZE != 64
+ [13762] regex: re_search etc. should return -2 on memory exhaustion
+ [13888] build: /tmp usage during testing
+ [13932] math: dbl-64 pow unexpectedly slow for some inputs
+ [14092] nptl: Support C11 threads
+ [14095] localedata: Review / update collation data from Unicode / ISO
+ 14651
+ [14508] libc: -Wformat warnings
+ [14553] libc: Namespace pollution loff_t in sys/types.h
+ [14890] libc: Make NT_PRFPREG canonical.
+ [15105] libc: Extra PLT references with -Os
+ [15512] libc: __bswap_constant_16 not compiled when -Werror -Wsign-
+ conversion is given
+ [16335] manual: Feature test macro documentation incomplete and out of
+ date
+ [16552] libc: Unify umount implementations in terms of umount2
+ [17082] libc: htons et al.: statement-expressions prevent use on global
+ scope with -O1 and higher
+ [17343] libc: Signed integer overflow in /stdlib/random_r.c
+ [17438] localedata: pt_BR: wrong d_fmt delimiter
+ [17662] libc: please implement binding for the new renameat2 syscall
+ [17721] libc: __restrict defined as /* Ignore */ even in c11
+ [17979] libc: inconsistency between uchar.h and stdint.h
+ [18018] dynamic-link: Additional $ORIGIN handling issues (CVE-2011-0536)
+ [18023] libc: extend_alloca is broken (questionable pointer comparison,
+ horrible machine code)
+ [18124] libc: hppa: setcontext erroneously returns -1 as exit code for
+ last constant.
+ [18471] libc: llseek should be a compat symbol
+ [18473] soft-fp: [powerpc-nofpu] __sqrtsf2, __sqrtdf2 should be compat
+ symbols
+ [18991] nss: nss_files skips large entry in database
+ [19239] libc: Including stdlib.h ends up with macros major and minor being
+ defined
+ [19463] libc: linknamespace failures when compiled with -Os
+ [19485] localedata: csb_PL: Update month translations + add yesstr/nostr
+ [19527] locale: Normalized charset name not recognized by setlocale
+ [19667] string: Missing Sanity Check for malloc calls in file 'testcopy.c'
+ [19668] libc: Missing Sanity Check for malloc() in file 'tst-setcontext-
+ fpscr.c'
+ [19728] network: out of bounds stack read in libidn function
+ idna_to_ascii_4i (CVE-2016-6261)
+ [19729] network: out of bounds heap read on invalid utf-8 inputs in
+ stringprep_utf8_nfkc_normalize (CVE-2016-6263)
+ [19818] dynamic-link: Absolute (SHN_ABS) symbols incorrectly relocated by
+ the base address
+ [20079] libc: Add SHT_X86_64_UNWIND to elf.h
+ [20251] libc: 32bit programs pass garbage in struct flock for OFD locks
+ [20419] dynamic-link: files with large allocated notes crash in
+ open_verify
+ [20530] libc: bswap_16 should use __builtin_bswap16() when available
+ [20890] dynamic-link: ldconfig: fsync the files before atomic rename
+ [20980] manual: CFLAGS environment variable replaces vital options
+ [21163] regex: Assertion failure in pop_fail_stack when executing a
+ malformed regexp (CVE-2015-8985)
+ [21234] manual: use of CFLAGS makes glibc detect no optimization
+ [21269] dynamic-link: i386 sigaction sa_restorer handling is wrong
+ [21313] build: Compile Error GCC 5.4.0 MIPS with -0S
+ [21314] build: Compile Error GCC 5.2.0 MIPS with -0s
+ [21508] locale: intl/tst-gettext failure with latest msgfmt
+ [21547] localedata: Tibetan script collation broken (Dzongkha and Tibetan)
+ [21812] network: getifaddrs() returns entries with ifa_name == NULL
+ [21895] libc: ppc64 setjmp/longjmp not fully interoperable with static
+ dlopen
+ [21942] dynamic-link: _dl_dst_substitute incorrectly handles $ORIGIN: with
+ AT_SECURE=1
+ [22241] localedata: New locale: Yakut (Sakha) locale for Russia (sah_RU)
+ [22247] network: Integer overflow in the decode_digit function in
+ puny_decode.c in libidn (CVE-2017-14062)
+ [22342] nscd: NSCD not properly caching netgroup
+ [22391] nptl: Signal function clear NPTL internal symbols inconsistently
+ [22550] localedata: es_ES locale (and other es_* locales): collation
+ should treat ñ as a primary different character, sync the collation
+ for Spanish with CLDR
+ [22638] dynamic-link: sparc: static binaries are broken if glibc is built
+ by gcc configured with --enable-default-pie
+ [22639] time: year 2039 bug for localtime etc. on 64-bit platforms
+ [22644] string: memmove-sse2-unaligned on 32bit x86 produces garbage when
+ crossing 2GB threshold (CVE-2017-18269)
+ [22646] localedata: redundant data (LC_TIME) for es_CL, es_CU, es_EC and
+ es_BO
+ [22735] time: Misleading typo in time.h source comment regarding
+ CLOCKS_PER_SECOND
+ [22753] libc: preadv2/pwritev2 fallback code should handle offset=-1
+ [22761] libc: No trailing `%n' conversion specifier in FMT passed from
+ `__assert_perror_fail ()' to `__assert_fail_base ()'
+ [22766] libc: all glibc internal dlopen should use RTLD_NOW for robust
+ dlopen failures
+ [22786] libc: Stack buffer overflow in realpath() if input size is close
+ to SSIZE_MAX (CVE-2018-11236)
+ [22787] dynamic-link: _dl_check_caller returns false when libc is linked
+ through an absolute DT_NEEDED path
+ [22792] build: tcb-offsets.h dependency dropped
+ [22797] libc: pkey_get() uses non-reserved name of argument
+ [22807] libc: PTRACE_* constants missing for powerpc
+ [22818] glob: posix/tst-glob_lstat_compat failure on alpha
+ [22827] dynamic-link: RISC-V ELF64 parser mis-reads flag in ldconfig
+ [22830] malloc: malloc_stats doesn't restore cancellation state on stderr
+ [22848] localedata: ca_ES: update date definitions from CLDR
+ [22862] build: _DEFAULT_SOURCE is defined even when _ISOC11_SOURCE is
+ [22884] math: RISCV fmax/fmin handle signalling NANs incorrectly
+ [22896] localedata: Update locale data for an_ES
+ [22902] math: float128 test failures with GCC 8
+ [22918] libc: multiple common of `__nss_shadow_database'
+ [22919] libc: sparc32: backtrace yields infinite backtrace with
+ makecontext
+ [22926] libc: FTBFS on powerpcspe
+ [22932] localedata: lt_LT: Update of abbreviated month names from CLDR
+ required
+ [22937] localedata: Greek (el_GR, el_CY) locales actually need ab_alt_mon
+ [22947] libc: FAIL: misc/tst-preadvwritev2
+ [22963] localedata: cs_CZ: Add alternative month names
+ [22987] math: [powerpc/sparc] fdim inlines errno, exceptions handling
+ [22996] localedata: change LC_PAPER to en_US in es_BO locale
+ [22998] dynamic-link: execstack tests are disabled when SELinux is
+ disabled
+ [23005] network: Crash in __res_context_send after memory allocation
+ failure
+ [23007] math: strtod cannot handle -nan
+ [23024] nss: getlogin_r is performing NSS lookups when loginid isn't set
+ [23036] regex: regex equivalence class regression
+ [23037] libc: initialize msg_flags to zero for sendmmsg() calls
+ [23069] libc: sigaction broken on riscv64-linux-gnu
+ [23094] localedata: hr_HR: wrong thousands_sep and mon_thousands_sep
+ [23102] dynamic-link: Incorrect parsing of multiple consecutive $variable
+ patterns in runpath entries (e.g. $ORIGIN$ORIGIN)
+ [23137] nptl: s390: pthread_join sometimes block indefinitely (on 31bit
+ and libc build with -Os)
+ [23140] localedata: More languages need two forms of month names
+ [23145] libc: _init/_fini aren't marked as hidden
+ [23152] localedata: gd_GB: Fix typo in "May" (abbreviated)
+ [23171] math: C++ iseqsig for long double converts arguments to double
+ [23178] nscd: sudo will fail when it is run in concurrent with commands
+ that changes /etc/passwd
+ [23196] string: __mempcpy_avx512_no_vzeroupper mishandles large copies
+ (CVE-2018-11237)
+ [23206] dynamic-link: static-pie + dlopen breaks debugger interaction
+ [23208] localedata: New locale - Lower Sorbian (dsb)
+ [23233] regex: Memory leak in build_charclass_op function in file
+ posix/regcomp.c
+ [23236] stdio: Harden function pointers in _IO_str_fields
+ [23250] nptl: Offset of __private_ss differs from GCC
+ [23253] math: tgamma test suite failures on i686 with -march=x86-64
+ -mtune=generic -mfpmath=sse
+ [23259] dynamic-link: Unsubstituted ${ORIGIN} remains in DT_NEEDED for
+ AT_SECURE
+ [23264] libc: posix_spawnp wrongly executes ENOEXEC in non compat mode
+ [23266] nis: stringop-truncation warning with new gcc8.1 in nisplus-
+ parser.c
+ [23272] math: fma(INFINITY,INFIITY,0.0) should be INFINITY
+ [23277] math: nan function should not have const attribute
+ [23279] math: scanf and strtod wrong for some hex floating-point
+ [23280] math: wscanf rounds wrong; wcstod is ok for negative numbers and
+ directed rounding
+ [23290] localedata: IBM273 is not equivalent to ISO-8859-1
+ [23303] build: undefined reference to symbol
+ '__parse_hwcap_and_convert_at_platform@@GLIBC_2.23'
+ [23307] dynamic-link: Absolute symbols whose value is zero ignored in
+ lookup
+ [23313] stdio: libio vtables validation and standard file object
+ interposition
+ [23329] libc: The __libc_freeres infrastructure is not properly run across
+ DSO boundaries.
+ [23349] libc: Various glibc headers no longer compatible with
+ <linux/time.h>
+ [23351] malloc: Remove unused code related to heap dumps and malloc
+ checking
+ [23363] stdio: stdio-common/tst-printf.c has non-free license
+ [23396] regex: Regex equivalence regression in single-byte locales
+ [23422] localedata: oc_FR: More updates of locale data
+ [23442] build: New warning with GCC 8
+ [23448] libc: Out of bounds access in IBM-1390 converter
+ [23456] libc: Wrong index_cpu_LZCNT
+ [23458] build: tst-get-cpu-features-static isn't added to tests
+ [23459] libc: COMMON_CPUID_INDEX_80000001 isn't populated for Intel
+ processors
+ [23467] dynamic-link: x86/CET: A property note parser bug
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