[ol8_appstream] glibc-utils-2.28-236.0.1.el8_9.13.x86_64

The glibc-utils package contains memusage, a memory usage profiler,
mtrace, a memory leak tracer and xtrace, a function call tracer
which can be helpful during program debugging.

If unsure if you need this, don't install this package.

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• Tue May 07 2024 Cupertino Miranda <cupertino.miranda@oracle.com> - 2.28-236.0.1.13

  - Forward port of Oracle patches.
    Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
    Oracle history:
    March-5-2024 Cupertino Miranda <cupertino.miranda@oracle.com> - 2.28-236.0.1.12
    - Forward port of Oracle patches.
      Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
    November-14-2023 Cupertino Miranda <cupertino.miranda@oracle.com> - 2.28-236.0.1.7
    - Forward port of Oracle patches.
      Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
    October-4-2023 Cupertino Miranda <cupertino.miranda@oracle.com> - 2.28-236.0.1.6
    - Forward port of Oracle patches.
      Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
    April-21-2023 Cupertino Miranda <cupertino.miranda@oracle.com> - 2.28-225.0.3
    - OraBug 35317410 Glibc tunable to disable huge pages on pthread_create stacks
    - Created tunable glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb to control when hugepages
      can be used for stack allocation.
    - In case THP are enabled and glibc.pthread.stack_hugetlb is set to
      0, glibc will madvise the kernel not to use allow hugepages for stack
      allocations.
      Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
    April-11-2023 Cupertino Miranda <cupertino.miranda@oracle.com> - 2.28-225.0.2
    - OraBug: 35268809 Fixed initialization of VDSO for tcache_key_initialize
      Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
    March-28-2023 Cupertino Miranda <cupertino.miranda@oracle.com> - 2.28-225.0.1
    - Merge of Oracle patches for ol8u8 beta
      Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
    September-28-2022 Patrick McGehearty <patrick.mcgehearty@oracle.com> - 2.28-211.0.1
    - Merge of Oracle patches for ol8u7 beta
      Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
    August-8-2022 Patrick McGehearty <patrick.mcgehearty@oracle.com> - 2.28-189.5.0.2
    - Enable VDSO on x86_64, aarch64, i386, arm, and mips statically linked programs.
    - These changes enable reading the realtime clock without a kernel syscall.
      OraBug: 30478315
      Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
    May-2-2022 Patrick McGehearty <patrick.mcgehearty@oracle.com> - 2.28-199.0.1
    - Merge of patches from c8s 199 with ol8u6 beta
      Reviewed-by: Jose E. Marchesi <jose.marchesi@oracle.com>
    - Update siginfo constants from linux kernel (OraBug: 33734528)
    - Remove limit on MALLOC_MMAP_THRESHOLD tunable (Orabug: 29630826)
    - Provide glibc.pthread.mutex_spin_count tunable for pthread adaptive
    - spin mutex (Orabug: 27982358)
      Reviewed-by: Qing Zhao <qing.zhao@oracle.com>
    - add Ampere emag  to tunable cpu list (Patrick McGehearty)
    - add optimized memset for emag
    - add an ASIMD variant of strlen for falkor
      Orabug: 2700101.
    - Modify glibc-ora28849085.patch so it works with RHCK kernels. (Orabug: 28849085)
    - Make _IO_funlockfile match __funlockfile and _IO_flockfile match __flockfile
      Both should test
        if (stream->_flags & _IO_USER_LOCK) == 0)
          _IO_lock_lock (*stream->_lock);
      OraBug: 28481550.
      Reviewed-by: Qing Zhao <qing.zhao@oracle.com>

• Tue Apr 16 2024 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> - 2.28-236.13

  - CVE-2024-2961: Out of bounds write in iconv conversion to ISO-2022-CN-EXT (RHEL-32475)

• Mon Jan 29 2024 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> - 2.28-236.12

  - Re-enable output buffering for wide stdio streams (RHEL-22847)

• Mon Jan 29 2024 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> - 2.28-236.11

  - Avoid lazy binding failures during dlclose (RHEL-22846)

• Fri Jan 26 2024 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> - 2.28-236.10

  - nscd: Skip unusable entries in first pass in prune_cache (RHEL-22441)

• Fri Jan 26 2024 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> - 2.28-236.9

  - Fix force-first handling in dlclose (RHEL-21519)

• Fri Jan 26 2024 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> - 2.28-236.8

  - Improve compatibility between underlinking and IFUNC resolvers (RHEL-21522)

• Wed Sep 20 2023 Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com> - 2.28-236.7

  - CVE-2023-4911 glibc: buffer overflow in ld.so leading to privilege escalation (RHEL-3036)

• Tue Sep 19 2023 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> - 2.28-236.6

  - Revert: Always call destructors in reverse constructor order (#2233338)

• Tue Sep 19 2023 Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@redhat.com> - 2.28-236.5

  - CVE-2023-4806 glibc: potential use-after-free in getaddrinfo (RHEL-2423)