Upgrade coreutils to 9.8 for CVE-2025-5278

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• sudo make go-tidy-all and sudo make go-test-coverage pass
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Summary

Upgrade coreutils 9.4 → 9.8 (addresses CVE-2025-5278).
Rebase the i18n multibyte patch to 9.8 (coreutils-9.8-i18n.patch). Patch has been taken from Fedora.
Drop CVE-2024-0684.patch, fixed upstream in 9.5.

Build fix

Changed autoreconf -fi → AUTOPOINT=true autoreconf -fi in %build.

Why: coreutils declares AM_GNU_GETTEXT_VERSION([0.19.2]), so autopoint overwrites the tarball's bundled gnulib m4 macros with stale gettext‑0.19 copies that lack gl_ANYTHREADLIB_EARLY, gl_PTHREADLIB, gl_WEAK_SYMBOLS, gl_TYPE_WINT_T_PREREQ → autoreconf fails. Skipping autopoint keeps the tarball's already-coherent macro set (verified: those macros are defined in the bundled m4/threadlib.m4/wint_t.m4).

Chose AUTOPOINT=true over Fedora's sed 's/0.19.2/<gettext-ver>/' because it's version-independent (azl ships gettext 0.22, and gettext-devel is only a virtual Provide here), can't silently no-op on a future rebase, and needs no rpm -q/BuildRequires plumbing. Both fixes are functionally equivalent; this one is lower-maintenance for AZL.

Compatibility:

No library API/ABI change (coreutils ships executables, not a linkable library). Behavioral deltas are CLI-only, documented in NEWS, and auditable. The notable ones for scripts are cp -n/mv -n exit-status revert (9.5), ls -f flag semantics (9.6), and nproc cgroup‑v2 quota awareness (9.8). C/POSIX‑locale default behavior is unchanged.

Refs:
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/coreutils/blob/20976b8be8f329b2ffc60ed31fba89ed8ad2106a/f/coreutils-i18n.patch
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/coreutils/blob/f44/f/coreutils.spec

Change Log

• deleted: SPECS/coreutils/CVE-2024-0684.patch
• renamed: SPECS/coreutils/coreutils-9.4-i18n-1.patch -> SPECS/coreutils/coreutils-9.8-i18n.patch
• modified: SPECS/coreutils/coreutils.signatures.json
• modified: SPECS/coreutils/coreutils.spec
• modified: cgmanifest.json
• modified: toolkit/resources/manifests/package/pkggen_core_aarch64.txt
• modified: toolkit/resources/manifests/package/pkggen_core_x86_64.txt
• modified: toolkit/resources/manifests/package/toolchain_aarch64.txt
• modified: toolkit/resources/manifests/package/toolchain_x86_64.txt

Does this affect the toolchain?

YES

Associated issues

• #xxxx

Links to CVEs

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-5278

Test Methodology

• Local Build

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