Re: [RFT] Glibc 2.23 and binutils 2.26

[akuster808 <akuster808@gmail.com>]

On 01/17/2016 03:54 AM, Khem Raj wrote:
> Hi all
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> upstream glibc and binutils release branches have been cut out and are being made ready for next release
> I have put together update patchset for both of them
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> here are the branches
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> https://github.com/kraj/openembedded-core/tree/kraj/binutils-2.26
> https://github.com/kraj/openembedded-core/tree/kraj/glibc-2.23

Several Security fixes will be included in glibc-2.23 update.

https://bugzilla.yoctoproject.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8980


CVE-2015-8776 - Passing out of range data to strftime() causes a segfault

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18985


CVE-2015-8777 - LD_POINTER_GUARD is not ignored for privileged binaries
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18928

CVE-2015-8778 - hcreate((size_t)-1) should fail with ENOMEM
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18240

CVE-2014-9761 - nan function unbounded stack allocation
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16962

CVE-2015-8779 - catopen() Multiple unbounded stack allocations
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17905

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> FYI These are still using autorev to ensure that we test tip of release branches
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> Please give them a shot in your environments and report any issues you encounter.

BTW, Mips64 Octeon3 works fine. Aarch64 qemu boot tested.

- Armin
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> Thanks for help
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> -Khem
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