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general

source: glibc (main)
version: 2.40-5
maintainer: GNU Libc Maintainers (archive) (DMD)
uploaders: Samuel Thibault [DMD] – Clint Adams [DMD] – Aurelien Jarno [DMD]
arch: all any
std-ver: 4.6.2
VCS: Git (Browse, QA)

versions [more versions can be listed by madison] [old versions available from snapshot.debian.org]

[pool directory]

o-o-stable: 2.28-10+deb10u1
o-o-sec: 2.28-10+deb10u4
oldstable: 2.31-13+deb11u11
old-sec: 2.31-13+deb11u10
old-upd: 2.31-13+deb11u5
old-p-u: 2.31-13+deb11u11
stable: 2.36-9+deb12u9
stable-sec: 2.36-9+deb12u7
testing: 2.40-5
unstable: 2.40-5

versioned links

2.28-10+deb10u1: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.28-10+deb10u4: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.31-13+deb11u5: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.31-13+deb11u10: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.31-13+deb11u11: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.36-9+deb12u7: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.36-9+deb12u9: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]
2.40-5: [.dsc, use dget on this link to retrieve source package] [changelog] [copyright] [rules] [control]

binaries

glibc-doc (8 bugs: 0, 1, 7, 0)
glibc-source (1 bugs: 0, 0, 1, 0)
libc-bin (24 bugs: 0, 11, 13, 0)
libc-dev-bin (1 bugs: 0, 1, 0, 0)
libc-devtools (1 bugs: 0, 1, 0, 0)
libc-l10n
libc0.3
libc0.3-dbg
libc0.3-dev
libc0.3-udeb
libc6 (219 bugs: 0, 153, 66, 0)
libc6-amd64 (1 bugs: 0, 1, 0, 0)
libc6-dbg (1 bugs: 0, 0, 1, 0)
libc6-dev (33 bugs: 0, 19, 14, 0)
libc6-dev-amd64
libc6-dev-i386
libc6-dev-mips32
libc6-dev-mips64
libc6-dev-mipsn32
libc6-dev-powerpc
libc6-dev-ppc64
libc6-dev-s390
libc6-dev-sparc
libc6-dev-sparc64
libc6-dev-x32
libc6-i386 (2 bugs: 0, 1, 1, 0)
libc6-mips32
libc6-mips64
libc6-mipsn32
libc6-powerpc
libc6-ppc64
libc6-s390
libc6-sparc
libc6-sparc64
libc6-udeb
libc6-x32 (1 bugs: 0, 1, 0, 0)
libc6.1
libc6.1-dbg
libc6.1-dev
libc6.1-udeb
locales (47 bugs: 0, 29, 18, 0)
locales-all (3 bugs: 0, 2, 1, 0)
nscd (28 bugs: 0, 25, 3, 0)

action needed

lintian reports 300 errors and 346 warnings high

Lintian reports 300 errors and 346 warnings about this package. You should make the package lintian clean getting rid of them.

Created: 2025-01-03 Last update: 2025-01-04 12:31

7 security issues in buster high

There are 7 open security issues in buster.

4 important issues:

CVE-2024-33599: nscd: Stack-based buffer overflow in netgroup cache If the Name Service Cache Daemon's (nscd) fixed size cache is exhausted by client requests then a subsequent client request for netgroup data may result in a stack-based buffer overflow. This flaw was introduced in glibc 2.15 when the cache was added to nscd. This vulnerability is only present in the nscd binary.
CVE-2024-33600: nscd: Null pointer crashes after notfound response If the Name Service Cache Daemon's (nscd) cache fails to add a not-found netgroup response to the cache, the client request can result in a null pointer dereference. This flaw was introduced in glibc 2.15 when the cache was added to nscd. This vulnerability is only present in the nscd binary.
CVE-2024-33601: nscd: netgroup cache may terminate daemon on memory allocation failure The Name Service Cache Daemon's (nscd) netgroup cache uses xmalloc or xrealloc and these functions may terminate the process due to a memory allocation failure resulting in a denial of service to the clients. The flaw was introduced in glibc 2.15 when the cache was added to nscd. This vulnerability is only present in the nscd binary.
CVE-2024-33602: nscd: netgroup cache assumes NSS callback uses in-buffer strings The Name Service Cache Daemon's (nscd) netgroup cache can corrupt memory when the NSS callback does not store all strings in the provided buffer. The flaw was introduced in glibc 2.15 when the cache was added to nscd. This vulnerability is only present in the nscd binary.

2 issues postponed or untriaged:

CVE-2023-4806: (needs triaging) A flaw was found in glibc. In an extremely rare situation, the getaddrinfo function may access memory that has been freed, resulting in an application crash. This issue is only exploitable when a NSS module implements only the _nss_*_gethostbyname2_r and _nss_*_getcanonname_r hooks without implementing the _nss_*_gethostbyname3_r hook. The resolved name should return a large number of IPv6 and IPv4, and the call to the getaddrinfo function should have the AF_INET6 address family with AI_CANONNAME, AI_ALL and AI_V4MAPPED as flags.
CVE-2023-4813: (needs triaging) A flaw was found in glibc. In an uncommon situation, the gaih_inet function may use memory that has been freed, resulting in an application crash. This issue is only exploitable when the getaddrinfo function is called and the hosts database in /etc/nsswitch.conf is configured with SUCCESS=continue or SUCCESS=merge.

1 ignored issue:

CVE-2020-1751: An out-of-bounds write vulnerability was found in glibc before 2.31 when handling signal trampolines on PowerPC. Specifically, the backtrace function did not properly check the array bounds when storing the frame address, resulting in a denial of service or potential code execution. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to system availability.

Created: 2024-04-17 Last update: 2024-06-29 13:15

38 bugs tagged patch in the BTS normal

The BTS contains patches fixing 38 bugs (43 if counting merged bugs), consider including or untagging them.

Created: 2025-01-06 Last update: 2025-01-14 00:20

version in VCS is newer than in repository, is it time to upload? normal

vcswatch reports that this package seems to have a new changelog entry (version 2.40-6, distribution UNRELEASED) and new commits in its VCS. You should consider whether it's time to make an upload.

Here are the relevant commit messages:

commit 526f8dac17436bbe5bef249a60ecc51ef2a2b760
Author: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Date:   Mon Jan 13 00:57:57 2025 +0000

    control: On hurd-amd64, break openssh before rebuild against CMSG_DATA change

commit ad2566a74084cfa221b2e4b2ec7238ea2ca469aa
Author: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Date:   Sun Jan 12 17:01:25 2025 +0000

    hurd: Update tests that need RLIMIT_AS

commit 5d64ead97a8fe65ed805df9495198c5950944fe5
Author: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Date:   Sun Jan 12 16:04:54 2025 +0100

    debian/testsuite-xfail-debian.mk: Note fixed tests

commit 32d2e1bdd4961a3dbc25e36ff8755fdb9eabb922
Author: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Date:   Sun Jan 12 15:20:05 2025 +0100

    tst-tls-allocation-failure-static-patched is still failing on i386

commit ea787a82e7cd7bd93c26534b839f3b4fc93e9a14
Author: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Date:   Sun Jan 12 01:04:04 2025 +0100

    hurd: note that tst-basic7 is waiting for RLIMIT_AS support

commit 7600f4b5b6aeeb63027911d2e299c1925a52c0e6
Author: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Date:   Sun Jan 12 00:58:07 2025 +0100

    debian/patches/hurd-i386/git-early-kill.diff: Fix early kill

commit 2b374b329859151fce36b1b6b58c6bf49db897f6
Author: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Date:   Sat Jan 11 04:09:47 2025 +0100

    hurd-i386/tg-hooks.diff: Drop old unused patch

commit f05f6199779bdd99a9f93d9585f5641f8966ddd9
Author: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Date:   Fri Jan 10 23:06:35 2025 +0100

    debian/control.in/*: mirror existing Conflicts: of libc6 multilib packages to libc6-dev multilib packages.  Closes: #1092278.

commit 288b003fcf47acb8b95003417b9649655ad4664d
Author: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Date:   Fri Jan 10 20:49:29 2025 +0100

    debian/control.in/arm{el,hf}, debian/sysdeps/arm{el,hf}.mk: drop disabled code for armel/armhf multilib. It has never been used in Debian and is also disabled in Ubuntu.

commit de42cf14d64c9bae2646b1286311b336509b9d7b
Author: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Date:   Fri Jan 10 20:07:16 2025 +0100

    testsuite-xfail-debian.mk: Update tests that now XPASS

commit 937f76e7c9c6cc6e990454a877e9984c85ad6309
Author: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Date:   Fri Jan 10 01:27:39 2025 +0100

    debian/patches/hurd-i386/git-CMSG_DATA.diff: Fix CMSG_DATA macro
    
    This requires rebuilding all CMSG_DATA-using packages on hurd-amd64 but
    fixes alignment and CMSG_DATA/CMSG_LEN inconsistency.

commit c769d7c4002c05954ad00821e71a0c1b4ec56e65
Author: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Date:   Fri Jan 10 01:25:37 2025 +0100

    debian/testsuite-xfail-debian.mk: Update against make 4.4
    
    previous versions were making the setuid tests unsupported because they
    were dropping all supplementary groups.

commit 2f4a187dfeab68cd9e61942e47af42311bd7886a
Author: Aurelien Jarno <aurelien@aurel32.net>
Date:   Tue Jan 7 22:19:30 2025 +0100

    Update German debconf translation.  Closes: #1092303.

commit 7080aa5fa2efeea66052c0c22a0c8eba424ed7f7
Author: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Date:   Tue Jan 7 02:02:34 2025 +0100

    debian/testsuite-xfail-debian.mk: Update for upcoming 2.41

commit 32246e1ab70beac3a5387212c5a08ecf4f022f96
Author: Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Date:   Tue Oct 22 15:15:30 2019 +0100

    getconf(1): Mention `sysconf', mostly for the benefit of search
    
    This makes this handy utility considerably more discoverable.
    
    Signed-off-by: Ian Jackson <ian.jackson@eu.citrix.com>

Created: 2025-01-06 Last update: 2025-01-13 03:31

Issues found with some translations low

Automatic checks made by the Debian l10n team found some issues with the translations contained in this package. You should check the l10n status report for more information.

Issues can be things such as missing translations, problematic translated strings, outdated PO files, unknown languages, etc.

Created: 2020-02-26 Last update: 2025-01-06 01:30

debian/patches: 90 patches to forward upstream low

Among the 90 debian patches available in version 2.40-5 of the package, we noticed the following issues:

90 patches where the metadata indicates that the patch has not yet been forwarded upstream. You should either forward the patch upstream or update the metadata to document its real status.

Created: 2023-02-26 Last update: 2025-01-03 21:31

Build log checks report 2 warnings low

Build log checks report 2 warnings

Created: 2024-04-28 Last update: 2024-04-28 13:24

Standards version of the package is outdated. wishlist

The package should be updated to follow the last version of Debian Policy (Standards-Version 4.7.0 instead of 4.6.2).

Created: 2024-04-07 Last update: 2025-01-03 17:20

news

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[2025-01-12] glibc 2.40-5 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2025-01-03] Accepted glibc 2.40-5 (source) into unstable (Aurelien Jarno)
[2024-12-06] glibc 2.40-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-11-23] Accepted glibc 2.40-4 (source) into unstable (Aurelien Jarno)
[2024-11-01] Accepted glibc 2.36-9+deb12u9 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Aurelien Jarno)
[2024-10-10] glibc 2.40-3 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-09-24] Accepted glibc 2.40-3 (source) into unstable (Aurelien Jarno)
[2024-08-31] glibc 2.40-2 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-08-25] Accepted glibc 2.40-2 (source) into unstable (Aurelien Jarno)
[2024-08-23] glibc 2.39-7 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-08-16] Accepted glibc 2.31-13+deb11u11 (source) into oldstable-proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Aurelien Jarno)
[2024-08-16] Accepted glibc 2.36-9+deb12u8 (source) into proposed-updates (Debian FTP Masters) (signed by: Aurelien Jarno)
[2024-08-14] Accepted glibc 2.39-7 (source) into unstable (Aurelien Jarno)
[2024-07-29] glibc 2.39-6 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-07-23] Accepted glibc 2.39-6 (source) into unstable (Aurelien Jarno)
[2024-07-23] glibc 2.39-4 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-07-22] Accepted glibc 2.39-5 (source) into unstable (Aurelien Jarno)
[2024-07-22] Accepted glibc 2.40-1 (source) into experimental (Aurelien Jarno)
[2024-07-15] Accepted glibc 2.39-4 (source) into unstable (Aurelien Jarno)
[2024-07-10] glibc 2.38-14 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-07-04] Accepted glibc 2.38-14 (source) into unstable (Aurelien Jarno)
[2024-06-30] Accepted glibc 2.28-10+deb10u4 (source) into oldoldstable (Adrian Bunk)
[2024-06-14] glibc 2.38-13 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-06-10] Accepted glibc 2.38-13 (source) into unstable (Samuel Thibault)
[2024-06-06] Accepted glibc 2.39-3.1 (source) into experimental (Helmut Grohne)
[2024-06-06] Accepted glibc 2.38-12.1 (source) into unstable (Helmut Grohne)
[2024-06-06] glibc 2.38-12 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)
[2024-06-01] Accepted glibc 2.39-3 (source) into experimental (Aurelien Jarno)
[2024-06-01] Accepted glibc 2.38-12 (source) into unstable (Aurelien Jarno)
[2024-05-19] glibc 2.38-11 MIGRATED to testing (Debian testing watch)

bugs [bug history graph]

all: 420 442
RC: 1
I&N: 269 285
M&W: 147 153
F&P: 3
patch: 38 43

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version: 2.40-4ubuntu1
439 bugs (9 patches)
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