As scheduled, version 2.37 of the GNU C Library «glibc» was released this morning.
This widely-used libc implementation on Linux and other platforms has many bug fixes as well as a few new features. Some of the Glibc 2.37 highlights include:
– The getent tool now supports the –no-addrconfig option.
– The dynamic linker no longer loads shared objects from the «tls» sub-directories on the library search path or the sub-directory that corresponds to the AT_PLATFORM system name.
– A security fix with CVE-2022-39046 when the syslog function is passed a crafted input string longer than 1024 bytes it can read uninitialized memory from the heap.
– Dozens of different bug fixes.
The full list of Glibc 2.37 fixes/changes can be found via the NEWS entry. Glibc 2.37 meanwhile is on the way to Ubuntu 23.04, Fedora 38, and other upcoming Linux distribution releases.
