[arch-dev-public] [signoff] gmp-5.0.2-2

Evangelos Foutras foutrelis at gmail.com
Mon Jul 18 10:52:51 EDT 2011


On 18 July 2011 14:51, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> Upstream patch for the following bug (until 5.0.3 is release with this fix):
>
> There is a GMP bug in mpn/generic/dcpi1_bdiv_q.c that causes incorrect
> computation with extremely low probability, for unnormalised dividends. The
> bug might also result in a decrement of memory above dividends, with some
> potential security impact. The bug might affect several user-level routines,
> e.g., mpz_invert, but only for operands of at least 3000 bits (for smaller
> operands, a simpler algorithm is used).
>
> Testsuite fully passes.
>
> Signoff both,

Since the test suite passes, signoff both. :)


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