distro usage of pt_chown

Posted Jun 2, 2016 18:03 UTC (Thu) by TheJH (subscriber, #101155)
In reply to: distro usage of pt_chown by vapier
Parent article: Containers, pseudo TTYs, and backward compatibility

Debian did it until a few months ago, and I thiiink Ubuntu only pulled that change from them. See Debian's changelog:

http://metadata.ftp-master.debian.org/changelogs//main/g/...

glibc (2.19-18+deb8u4) stable; urgency=medium

[ Aurelien Jarno ]
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* sysdeps/linux.mk: don't build pt_chown (CVE-2013-2207). Closes: #717544.

-- Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org> Sat, 27 Feb 2016 23:17:33 +0100