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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2009-12-11 08:51:28 +0100
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2009-12-11 08:51:28 +0100
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doc: NEWS: mention that gnulib's mgetgroups fix affects id
* NEWS (Bug fixes): Mention the "id" bug fix inherited via this gnulib change: "mgetgroups: do not write bytes beyond end of malloc'd buffer" http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/gnulib.git/commit/?id=51d5e813e9ee6cf23
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@@ -4,6 +4,9 @@ GNU coreutils NEWS -*- outline -*-
** Bug fixes
+ id's use of mgetgroups no longer writes beyond the end of a malloc'd buffer
+ [bug introduced in coreutils-8.1]
+
id no longer crashes on systems without supplementary group support.
[bug introduced in coreutils-8.1]