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Message-ID: <20120418191328.5ea16f57@newbook>
Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2012 19:13:28 -0700
From: Isaac Dunham <idunham@...abit.com>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: musl 0.8.8 released; all users should upgrade or patch
On Wed, 18 Apr 2012 05:07:56 -0400
Rich Felker <dalias@...ifal.cx> wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I've released musl 0.8.8 including a fix for the buffer overflow issue
> discovered yesterday. Release summary:
>
> Fix for critical buffer overflow vulnerability in fprintf with
> unbuffered files. Major math library correctness and performance
> improvements, including x86 assembly. New floating point
> parser/converter with correct rounding, new scanf that corrects
> many corner-case errors, and new wcstod/f/ld (previously missing).
> Various compatibility improvements and small bug fixes.
>
> http://www.etalabs.net/musl/releases/musl-0.8.8.tar.gz
>
> With this release, musl seems to have complete interface-level
> coverage of ISO C99 and POSIX 2008. There are still some features
I forget what they were, but ISTR seeing one or two missing functions
in one of the headers I worked on.
> math, float parsing, and scanf code. I'd also like to get the
> in-progress _BSD_SOURCE feature test macro patchset finished and
> integrated. If all goes well, we might just have one or two more
> releases in this series before 0.9 begins.
What I'd had in mind was to have _BSD_SOURCE ready "before 0.9.0" (when
you were talking about having the license change).
I haven't made much progress on it lately, and have been going through
header by header (there are no patches I haven't sent left). If anyone
wants to work on the other headers, they're welcome to do so. A header
should take less than 3 hours to go over, from my experience.
> Just looked back at the list archives and my original goals for 1.0,
> and it seems we're nearly there, and already exceeding the goals in
> some areas like application compatibility. A big thanks goes out to
> everyone who's been testing and reporting the issues you run into
> building apps!
You're welcome, and thank you for developing musl!
Isaac Dunham
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