{"id":2979,"date":"2016-08-06T10:45:20","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T14:45:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/?p=2979"},"modified":"2024-02-20T13:24:01","modified_gmt":"2024-02-20T10:24:01","slug":"gnu-c-library-version-2-24-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/local.brightwhiz\/gnu-c-library-version-2-24-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"The GNU C Library version 2.24 now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Free Software Foundation has announced that the GNU C Library version 2.24 is now available for general availability. This is a free and <a href=\"\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/open-source\/\">open source<\/a>, cross-platform GNU Project <a href=\"\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/programming\/\">programming<\/a> library.<\/p>\n<p>The GNU C Library which is commonly known as glibc has been released under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL). The GNU C <a href=\"\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/libraries\/\">Library<\/a> is designed as a portable and high-performance <a href=\"\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/cplusplus\/\">C<\/a> library following the C11 standard.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>Highlights of the GNU C Library<\/h2>\n<p>The GNU C Library now requires the minimum <a href=\"\/\/local.brightwhiz\/tag\/linux\/\">Linux <\/a>kernel version to be version 3.2.x. However on i[4567]86 and x86_64, the Linux kernel version 2.6.32 or later is supported. The pap_AN locale which had been deprecated for years has now been deleted.<\/p>\n<p>It is now recommended to use readdir and readdir64 over the previous readdir_r and readdir64_r functions which have now been deprecated.<\/p>\n<p>The deprecated __malloc_initialize_hook as well as the long unused localedef &#8211;old-style option have been removed. variable has been removed too. The &#8220;union wait&#8221; type which was deprecated in the 1990s and is not part of POSIX has finally been removed. The int type should now be used.<\/p>\n<p>There are also a number of security related changes such as the unnecessary stack copy in _nss_dns_getnetbyname_r and getaddrinfo which could cause a stack overflow has been removed.<\/p>\n<p>The glob function has been fixed as it suffered from a stack-based buffer overflow. There is also a fix in the\u00a0Sun RPC UDP client could exhaust all available stack space when flooded with crafted ICMP and UDP messages.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, a denial of service due to memory exhaustion caused by the IPv6 nameserver management code in libresolv.<\/p>\n<p>You can get the whole list of changes in the C library and see the list of contributors from the changelog page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sourceware.org\/ml\/libc-alpha\/2016-08\/msg00212.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" class=\"broken_link\">here<\/a>. 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