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Re: glibc 2.23 -- Hard freeze follow ups
- From: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval dot zanella at linaro dot org>
- To: Florian Weimer <fw at deneb dot enyo dot de>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 18:39:12 -0200
- Subject: Re: glibc 2.23 -- Hard freeze follow ups
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On 25-01-2016 18:31, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Adhemerval Zanella:
>
>> The next Feb 6 is also the final deadline freeze date, so I won't
>> expect nothing but critical CVE to being pushed.
>
> I would like to fix bug 18240 in this release. It's not critical, but
> we had an oversight, and the initial patch did not actually fix the
> bug. It's certainly not a critical security fix, but the challenge
> here is that we created the impression that we're going to fix it in
> 2.23 with my CVE request. If we don't manage to do that, it's going
> to be confusing to anyone who searches for CVE data.
>
> Thanks,
> Florian
>
Right, I see from comment 1 that you marked it as security issues and
I think it is worth to fix for 2.23 since patch being reviewed.