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NEWS: List additional fixed security bugs
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Florian Weimer committed Feb 18, 2016
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tzselect). This is useful for people who build the timezone data and code
independent of the GNU C Library.

* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to
disable the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled.

* The obsolete header <regexp.h> has been removed. Programs that require
this header must be updated to use <regex.h> instead.

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Security related changes:

* An out-of-bounds value in a broken-out struct tm argument to strftime no
longer causes a crash. Reported by Adam Nielsen. (CVE-2015-8776)

* The LD_POINTER_GUARD environment variable can no longer be used to disable
the pointer guard feature. It is always enabled. Previously,
LD_POINTER_GUARD could be used to disable security hardening in binaries
running in privileged AT_SECURE mode. Reported by Hector Marco-Gisbert.
(CVE-2015-8777)

* An integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r could lead to an
out-of-bounds memory access. Reported by Szabolcs Nagy. (CVE-2015-8778)

* The catopen function no longer has unbounded stack usage. Reported by
Max. (CVE-2015-8779)

* The nan, nanf and nanl functions no longer have unbounded stack usage
depending on the length of the string passed as an argument to the
functions. Reported by Joseph Myers.
functions. Reported by Joseph Myers. (CVE-2014-9761)

* A stack-based buffer overflow was found in libresolv when invoked from
libnss_dns, allowing specially crafted DNS responses to seize control
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