2.11.4: Call for testing
Aurelien Jarno
aurelien@aurel32.net
Mon Jun 6 13:35:00 GMT 2011
On Sun, Jun 05, 2011 at 12:15:41PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 07:01:06PM +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:
> > Hello!
>
> Hi,
>
> > In a week or two, I would like to tag 2.11.4. Testing and suggestions
>
> Thanks for your work on that.
>
> > for more bugs to be picked is welcome! (Or if you need more time...)
> >
>
> You may want to have a look at the two following commits. They have
> been committed after your call for test, so it might be worth waiting
> for 2.11.5 so they get tested a bit more. That said I do wonder if the
> first issue could be exploited for a denial of service attack on daemons
> or applications.
>
> 8887a920a4b81a500f54893250085e0d1a52cf9a Fix unnecessary overallocation due to incomplete character
> 7ae22829afb2b4ca531d1c00437d428f55d59341 Restore _res correctly
>
This one might also be important security-wise:
70181fddf1467996bea393d13294ffe76b8a0853 Change setgroups to affect all the threads in the process.
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