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Date:      Thu, 2 Jul 2015 13:53:16 -0400
From:      Philip Gollucci <pgollucci@gocurb.com>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Cc:        FreeBSD Errata Notices <errata-notices@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: [FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD Errata Notice FreeBSD-EN-15:09.xlocale
Message-ID:  <CADDV2kciXUT5BRnMpc4Hscp94wT_mARPP8tmCirVjkv81S6Xdw@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20150630234354.B69DB1DAF@freefall.freebsd.org>
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We probably use this indirectly in ruby/go at minimum.  We should update
this, we'll get it in the next update.

On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 7:43 PM, FreeBSD Errata Notices <
errata-notices@freebsd.org> wrote:

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> 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
>
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