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Security related changes:
- [Add security related changes here]
+* Previously, getaddrinfo copied large amounts of address data to the stack,
+ even after the fix for CVE-2013-4458 has been applied, potentially
+ resulting in a stack overflow. getaddrinfo now uses a heap allocation
+ instead. Reported by Michael Petlan. (CVE-2016-3706)
The following bugs are resolved with this release: