Overview of changes in GLib 2.66.7
Fix various regressions caused by rushed security fixes in 2.66.6
(work by Simon McVittie and Jan Alexander Steffens) (!1933, !1943)Fix a silent integer truncation when calling
g_byte_array_new_take()for
byte arrays bigger thanG_MAXUINT(work by Krzesimir Nowak) (!1944)Disallow using currently-undefined D-Bus connection or server flags to prevent
forward-compatibility problems with new security-sensitive flags likely to be
released in GLib 2.68 (work by Simon McVittie) (!1945)Bugs fixed:
- !1933 [2.66] Fix regressions in 2.66.6 where negative gssize indicates strlen()
- !1943 Backport !1941 “gkeyfilesettingsbackend: Fix basename handling when group is unset” to glib-2-66
- !1944 Backport !1942 “gbytearray: Do not accept too large byte arrays” to glib-2-66
- !1945 Backport !1934 “gdbus: Reject attempts to set future connection or server flags” to glib-2-66
- !1933 [2.66] Fix regressions in 2.66.6 where negative gssize indicates strlen()