Comment 16 for bug 915995

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package eglibc - 2.19-0ubuntu2

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eglibc (2.19-0ubuntu2) trusty; urgency=medium

  * Merge with unreleased 2.19 from Debian experimental, fixing some bugs:
    - debian/patches/any/local-no-malloc-backtrace.diff: Lower the default
      for MALLOC_CHECK_ to 1, and add it to the list of insecure variables
      that can't be set for suid binaries. This allows us to not backtrace
      malloc failures by default (Closes: #739913, LP: #1266492) and skips
      backtrace for suid binaries where an attacker calling into a corrupt
      malloc internal data structure with malloc could lead to Bad Things.
    - Make ldconfig stop operating on the linker entirely, so our packaged
      symlinks take precedence and hack the postinst to skip ldconfig when
      we detect a broken setup that the old ldconfig mangles (LP: #915995)
 -- Adam Conrad <email address hidden> Sun, 23 Feb 2014 22:39:18 -0700