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GNU C Library master sources branch master updated. glibc-2.26-108-g403143e


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commit 403143e1df85dadd374f304bd891be0cd7573e3b
Author: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed Aug 16 16:47:20 2017 +0200

    Add ChangeLog reference to bug 16750/CVE-2009-5064

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7188d1e..e308ee9 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 2017-08-16  Andreas Schwab  <schwab@suse.de>
 
+	[BZ #16750]
+	CVE-2009-5064
 	* elf/ldd.bash.in: Never run file directly.
 
 2017-08-15  H.J. Lu  <hongjiu.lu@intel.com>
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 484c467..0008df1 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -22,7 +22,11 @@ Changes to build and runtime requirements:
 
 Security related changes:
 
-  [Add security related changes here]
+  CVE-2009-5064: The ldd script would sometimes run the program under
+  examination directly, without preventing code execution through the
+  dynamic linker.  (The glibc project disputes that this is a security
+  vulnerability; only trusted binaries must be examined using the ldd
+  script.)
 
 The following bugs are resolved with this release:
 

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Summary of changes:
 ChangeLog |    2 ++
 NEWS      |    6 +++++-
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)


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