FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-15:09.xlocale
30 June, 2015 by errata-notices@freebsd.org | freebsd
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA512 ============================================================================= FreeBSD-EN-15:09.xlocale Errata Notice The FreeBSD Project Topic: Inconsistency between locale and rune locale states Category: core Module: libc Announced: 2015-06-30 Credits: David Chisnall Affects: FreeBSD 9.x and FreeBSD 10.x. Corrected: 2015-06-17 19:12:18 UTC (stable/10, 10.1-STABLE) 2015-06-30 23:21:37 UTC (releng/10.1, 10.1-RELEASE-p14) 2015-06-17 19:13:13 UTC (stable/9, 9.3-STABLE) 2015-06-30 23:21:48 UTC (releng/9.3, 9.3-RELEASE-p18) For general information regarding FreeBSD Errata Notices and Security Advisories, including descriptions of the fields above, security branches, and the following sections, please visit <URL:https://security.freebsd.org/>. I. Background Recent FreeBSD releases have support to thread-safe and extended locale API, modeled after the Darwin xlocale(3) API. The C standard locale API was reimplemented as a wrapper of the xlocale(3) API with a global locale in order to support its semantics. II. Problem Description The locale and rune locale may become out of sync, in which case calls of mb* and similar functions would be supplied with wrong data. III. Impact Applications that uses xlocale but does not call setlocale(3) would crash. IV. Workaround No workaround is available. V. Solution Perform one of the following: 1) Upgrade your system to a supported FreeBSD stable or release / security branch (releng) dated after the correction date. 2) To update your present system via a binary patch: Systems running a RELEASE version of FreeBSD on the i386 or amd64 platforms can be updated via the freebsd-update(8) utility: # freebsd-update fetch # freebsd-update install 3) To update your present system via a source code patch: The following patches have been verified to apply to the applicable FreeBSD release branches. a) Download the relevant patch from the location below, and verify the detached PGP signature using your PGP utility. # fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/EN-15:09/xlocale.patch # fetch https://security.FreeBSD.org/patches/EN-15:09/xlocale.patch.asc # gpg --verify xlocale.patch.asc b) Apply the patch. Execute the following commands as root: # cd /usr/src # patch < /path/to/patch c) Recompile the operating system using buildworld and installworld as described in <URL:https://www.FreeBSD.org/handbook/makeworld.html>. Restart all deamons using the library, or reboot the system. VI. Correction details The following list contains the correction revision numbers for each affected branch. Branch/path Revision - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- stable/9/ r284525 releng/9.3/ r284986 stable/10/ r284524 releng/10.1/ r284985 - ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To see which files were modified by a particular revision, run the following command, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number, on a machine with Subversion installed: # svn diff -cNNNNNN --summarize svn://svn.freebsd.org/base Or visit the following URL, replacing NNNNNN with the revision number: <URL:https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=NNNNNN> VII. References <URL:https://bugs.freebsd.org/188036> The latest revision of this Errata Notice is available at https://security.FreeBSD.org/advisories/FreeBSD-EN-15:09.locale.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.1.5 (FreeBSD) iQIcBAEBCgAGBQJVkyZQAAoJEO1n7NZdz2rnitMQAK5jY0n9Kv0VDwP5J4EXdcHZ SOEE8n5O+bwWxVFWkqGGZrPQiUuJt6ujrAJb2iSeUtKIa2E84TLDVjmWGtyqP/RN rLlRjVVQo14EhSScRI54oUeAYpoBWU8oRtFiixFbw24gFEW/ZeovFxQUY1Waueuy Xpx28cmqQ3KG/T+Ujq1edHrtMpqwsBQd93eHRFSjtWaMrxmjnr4ln66AerdPQAYx ib2rznxy+MCF0rmHbTsYnpZKZ1DupcyU7YkOdhVTk8cviL44wPGaCrA9Oaf6Q2hW NTek9h5VQhvmhWaPsUZTGbQYPkvFjvEbmKOxRV+Mtf+UBt2y7SoqACpP1BbCC77n 8uRGdI8MPpC1j9RHZ5miWz4NkA3W1Pa/oi66PRhenzXgDe9Ua4aykklqnINhOrgm ZBCLz1DXnx4WyeW2FIf7Z9GGcF3sUd9RU2e4H0WI3uZ75PT7p/zq1L4FKxXEn9/7 VoGy6cyQWwFUZ27lIcSGLeUhSolrtDofHPwKe8YB12bTXPhxjNYs+4iYWF0ZScOE Wr9Jx7mKecNQ+jD5iEP2Ne7tzqSPSDZGzwkvifz+dmHT5L9hx6Pu916xp6/kzVg1 up31EcoQOn1N/ZHjC9VgGmyOgdA5ENHKNPhzcYp2CrJSadBHQHeINfwbRLdzLjVl Nnt+YSShqakxvZhNmTex =Wfyl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ freebsd-announce@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-announce To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-announce-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"