Changes between Initial Version and Version 1 of Release/2.4.3-News


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Oct 28, 2019, 3:34:56 AM (4 years ago)
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Even Rouault
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2.4.3 news page

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     1= GDAL/OGR 2.4.3 Release Notes =
     2
     3The 2.4.3 release is a bug fix release.
     4
     5== Misc ==
     6
     7 * Replace a few catch of bad_alloc by exception to handle the case of 32 bit trying to allocate more than 4GB of memory and thus throwing a length_error exception. Found by OSS Fuzz
     8 * Fix issues with thread_local and C++ objects that don't work well with DLL on Windows
     9
     10== Port ==
     11
     12 * /vsicrypt/: fix memleak in error code path
     13 * /vsitar/: support >100 character file names (#1559)
     14 * /vsitar/: accept space as end of field terminator
     15
     16== GDAL core ==
     17
     18 * fix non-neareset resampling over nodata blocks (#1941)
     19
     20== GDAL utilities ==
     21
     22 * gdalwarp: adjust nodata values, passed with -srcnodata/-dstnodata, and close to FLT_MAX to exactly it (#1724)
     23 * Python scripts: GetOutputDriverFor(): fixes error when multiple drivers found ( #1719)
     24
     25== GDAL drivers ==
     26
     27BAG driver:
     28 * calculate the northeast pixel corner rather than scaling the resolution, due to an incorrectly shifted northeast corner in some CARIS surveys (#1728)
     29
     30CTable2Dataset driver:
     31 * SetGeoTransform(): fix read buffer overflow from stack
     32
     33ENVI driver:
     34 * preserve 'byte order' on update (#1796)
     35
     36GTiff driver:
     37 * make sure that GetMetadataDomainList() doesn't return EXIF when there's no EXIF metadata (https://github.com/mapbox/rasterio/pull/1740#issuecomment-526660946)
     38 * Internal libtiff: backport security related fixes
     39
     40HDF5 and netCDF drivers:
     41 * fix crash when reading attributes of type string of variable length with NULL values
     42
     43JP2KAK driver:
     44 * fix issue with multi-threaded reads
     45
     46JP2OpenJPEG driver:
     47 * fix error logic in multi-threaded code causing memory corruption
     48 * fix reading overviews, when tiled API is used, and the dimensions of the full resolution image are not a multiple of 2^numresolutions (#1860)
     49 * fix to return the proper number of bytes read when we read more than 2 GB at once (https://github.com/uclouvain/openjpeg/issues/1151)
     50
     51JPEG driver:
     52 * fix further calls to RasterIO after reading full image at full resolution (#1947)
     53
     54PDF driver:
     55 * fix nullptr dereferences on corrupted files (OSS Fuzz #16438, #16558, #16759)
     56 * fix potential heap buffer overflow (OSS Fuzz #16546)
     57 * avoid potential integer division by zero (OSS Fuzz #17129)
     58
     59SAFE driver:
     60 * avoid potential use-after-free (Coverity 1404037 and 1404140)
     61
     62Terragen driver:
     63 * avoid potential use-after-free on error code path in write_header() (Coverity 1404060)
     64
     65USGSDEM driver:
     66 * avoid int overflow. Fixes OSS Fuzz #15715
     67 * fix reading FEMA generated Lidar datasets whose header is 918 bytes large
     68
     69VRT driver:
     70 * avoid erroneous pixel request do be done with KernelFilteredSource
     71
     72== OGR core ==
     73
     74 * OGRExpatRealloc(): fix double-free when size to allocate is above the default 10MB threshold. OSS Fuzz #16178 / CVE-2019-17545
     75 * OGR SQLite: do not propagate 'IS / IS NOT value' constructs to OGR SQL
     76 * OGRSimpleCurve::getPoints() with XYZM: fix wrong stride used for M array
     77 * OGRSimpleCurve: fix reversePoints() and addSubLineString() to take into account M dimension
     78
     79== OGR drivers ==
     80
     81CAD driver:
     82 * libopencad: CADBuffer: replace m_guard by m_nSize to avoid pointer wrap around on 32 bit platforms on corrupted files. OSS Fuzz #16388
     83
     84DGN driver:
     85 * avoid size_t overflow / illegal memory access. OSS Fuzz #16393
     86
     87GeoJSON driver:
     88 * fix update of file on Windows (https://github.com/qgis/QGIS/issues/28580)
     89
     90GPX driver:
     91 * fix memory leak when streaming to /vsistdout/
     92
     93LIBKML driver:
     94 * fix potential memory leak. (Coverity 1404148)
     95
     96MITAB driver:
     97 * fix potential double-free (Coverity 1404224)
     98 * avoid potential nullptr deref (Coverity 1404174)
     99
     100PDF driver:
     101 * fix reading polygon with holes and Bezier curves (#1932)
     102 * fix reading strings with escape sequences
     103
     104PostgreSQL driver:
     105 * add support for PostgreSQL 12 (#1692)
     106 * be more restrictive when deducing non-nullability of columns in SQL result layers (#1734)
     107
     108S57 driver:
     109 * s57objectclasses.csv: add missing TXTDSC attribute for DRYDOC class (#1723)
     110
     111XLSX driver:
     112 * add support for .xlsm extension
     113
     114WFS3 driver:
     115 * correctly handle user query string parameters in connection URL (#1710)