[Bug localedata/17137] Directory traversal in locale environment handling (CVE-2014-0475)

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commit 585367266923156ac6fb789939a923641ba5aaf4
Author: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed May 28 14:05:03 2014 +0200

    manual: Update the locale documentation

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=4e8f95a0df7c2300b830ec12c0ae1e161bc8a8a3

commit 4e8f95a0df7c2300b830ec12c0ae1e161bc8a8a3
Author: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Date:   Mon May 12 15:24:12 2014 +0200

    _nl_find_locale: Improve handling of crafted locale names [BZ #17137]

    Prevent directory traversal in locale-related environment variables
    (CVE-2014-0475).

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=glibc.git;h=d183645616b0533b3acee28f1a95570bffbdf50f

commit d183645616b0533b3acee28f1a95570bffbdf50f
Author: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed May 28 14:41:52 2014 +0200

    setlocale: Use the heap for the copy of the locale argument

    This avoids alloca calls with potentially large arguments.

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Summary of changes:
 ChangeLog                   |   27 ++++++
 NEWS                        |   12 +++-
 locale/findlocale.c         |   74 +++++++++++++---
 locale/setlocale.c          |   14 +++-
 localedata/ChangeLog        |    6 ++
 localedata/Makefile         |    3 +-
 localedata/tst-setlocale3.c |  203 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 manual/locale.texi          |  146 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-------
 8 files changed, 436 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 localedata/tst-setlocale3.c

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