glibc

glibc 2.44 · pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/default.nix

Health

Risk

risk 35 high

+35 3 open advisories

Version

2.44 no newer release known to repology

Channels

master 2.44 · nixos-unstable 2.44 · nixos-26.05 2.42 master is ahead of nixos-26.05

Hydra

succeeded 2w ago

Advisories

NIXPKGS-2026-2571 high 7.7 EPSS 0.3% glibc: security issues GLIBC-SA-2026-0017 and GLIBC-SA-2026-0018 · #563466

CVE-2026-19499, CVE-2026-19542

NIXPKGS-2026-2658 EPSS 0.3% Assertion failure in the DNS stub resolver with a long search domain · #564529

CVE-2026-8674

NIXPKGS-2026-2724 EPSS 0.1% AT_SECURE program buffer overflow via $ORIGIN processing · #566198

CVE-2026-95818

NIXPKGS-2026-2386 wordexp with WRDE_APPEND can return or use invalid memory fixed in master needs backport to nixos-26.05

NIXPKGS-2026-2385 Potential stack-based buffer clash during tilde expansion in wordexp fixed in master needs backport to nixos-26.05

Packaging

not read yet: the next index sweep reads it

Maintainers

Ma27, ConnorBaker, balsoft, andir, pyrox0

Teams

Security review (balsoft, andir, pyrox0)

Pull requests 19

glibc: add passthru.tests.withCheck derivation for glibc tests

#565558 by joaosreis · opened 3w ago · checks pass

glibc: read a per-DSO resolution-cache note (stat-storm #481620)

#535735 by domenkozar · opened 3mo ago

lib/systems, gcc, glibc: add HPPA (PA-RISC) cross-compilation target

#510161 by siraben · opened 6mo ago

pkgs/top-level/stage.nix: add crossStdenv draft

#410056 by RossComputerGuy · opened 17mo ago · checks pass

llvmPackages.bolt: add experimental bolt hook

#375435 by RossComputerGuy · opened 21mo ago · checks pass

{cc,bintools}-wrapper: Prevent `NIX_HARDENING_ENABLE` clobbers

#354622 by Ericson2314 · opened 23mo ago · checks fail

treewide: don’t set `ulimit -n` in builds draft

#351783 by emilazy · opened 23mo ago

cc-wrapper: add support for `ibt` hardening flag on aarch64 & x86_64 draft

#333895 by risicle · opened 2y ago

cc-wrapper: add support for `spectrev2` hardening flag draft

#299608 by risicle · opened 2y ago

stdenv and base packages: fix with __structuredAttrs enabled draft

#263773 by globin · opened 2y ago

glibc: Add a NIX_LD_SO_CACHE environment variable to glibc

#248777 by Atry · opened 3y ago · checks pass

glibc: implement `LD_FALLBACK_PATH` environment variable

#248547 by oxij · opened 3y ago

multiple-outputs.sh: Install static libraries into `$static->$dev->$out` draft

#229758 by Luabee · opened 3y ago

glibc: allow use ld-nix.so.conf draft

#209753 by Izorkin · opened 3y ago

Speed up application startup by using `ld.so.cache`

#207061 by winterqt · opened 3y ago · checks pass

stdenv: reintroduce limiting by system load draft

#192799 by vcunat · opened 4y ago

Deduplicate bintools wrapper for multilib support

#166947 by peperunas · opened 4y ago

glibc: Add an environment variable for specifying an NSS search path draft

#111194 by edolstra · opened 5y ago · checks pass

[WIP] binutils, build-fhs-userenv: make use of ld fallback draft

#59595 by timokau · opened 7y ago · checks pass

Closed or merged in the synced window 14

[26.05] glibc: 2.42-100 -> 2.42-103; fixes CVE-2026-89092, CVE-2026-97399, CVE-2026-95818

#570948 by Ma27 · merged 8d ago

glibc: 2.44-50 -> 2.44-57, fixes CVE-2026-89092, CVE-2026-97399

#570947 by Ma27 · merged 9d ago

staging-next-26.05 iteration 8 - 2026-09-29

#568258 by vcunat · merged 9d ago

[26.05] glibc: 2.42-84 -> 2.42-100

#567380 by Ma27 · merged 2w ago

glibc: 2.44-25 -> 2.44-50

#567376 by Ma27 · merged 2w ago

glibc: use __libc_secure_getenv instead of secure_getenv

#565505 by joaosreis · merged 12d ago

[Backport staging-26.05] python314Packages.sh: ignore timing sensitive tests draft

#557463 by liberodark · closed 7w ago

glibc: 2.42-84 -> 2.44-25

#557451 by Ma27 · merged 3w ago

staging-next-26.05 iteration 6 - 2026-08-28

#557258 by vcunat · merged 5w ago

[Backport staging-26.05] glibc: 2.42-67 -> 2.42-84, fixes CVE-2026-6368 & CVE-2026-6791

#554216 by nixpkgs-ci · merged 7w ago

glibc: 2.42-67 -> 2.42-84, fixes CVE-2026-6368 & CVE-2026-6791

#553328 by Ma27 · merged 8w ago

Switch Cygwin over to GCC NG

#552087 by Ericson2314 · merged 7w ago

glibc: 2.42 -> 2.43

#502924 by philiptaron · closed 3w ago

haskell-modules/generic-builder.nix: undo hook workaround

#329529 by reckenrode · merged 2y ago

Issues 7

glibc: security issues GLIBC-SA-2026-0017 and GLIBC-SA-2026-0018 1.severity: security

#563466 by nixpkgs-security-tracker · opened 4w ago · 0 comments

teams/stdenv: please consider adopting orphaned stdenv dependencies 2.status: stale

#416200 by Aleksanaa · opened 16mo ago · 6 comments

`pkgsCross.aarch64-multiplatform.glibcLocales` on `aarch64-darwin` 6.topic: darwin 6.topic: cross-compilation 2.status: stale

#362272 by Artturin · opened 22mo ago · 0 comments

doas ignores environment variables set up in PAM, leading to many issues on NixOS 2.status: stale

#158988 by PaulGrandperrin · opened 4y ago · 4 comments

buildFHSUserEnv: add an option to remove /run/current-system/sw/bin 2.status: stale

#112649 by divanorama · opened 5y ago · 1 comments

Change the order of locale archive search path 6.topic: non-nixos 2.status: stale

#85823 by kirelagin · opened 6y ago · 13 comments

The glibc locale patch breaks `localedef --list` (and possibly other tools) 2.status: stale

#85819 by kirelagin · opened 6y ago · 4 comments