[El-errata] ELSA-2012-0393 Moderate: Oracle Linux 6 glibc security and bug fix update

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Thu Mar 15 21:17:29 PDT 2012


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2012-0393

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0393.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 6 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

i386:
glibc-2.12-1.47.el6_2.9.i686.rpm
glibc-common-2.12-1.47.el6_2.9.i686.rpm
glibc-devel-2.12-1.47.el6_2.9.i686.rpm
glibc-headers-2.12-1.47.el6_2.9.i686.rpm
glibc-static-2.12-1.47.el6_2.9.i686.rpm
glibc-utils-2.12-1.47.el6_2.9.i686.rpm
nscd-2.12-1.47.el6_2.9.i686.rpm

x86_64:
glibc-2.12-1.47.el6_2.9.i686.rpm
glibc-2.12-1.47.el6_2.9.x86_64.rpm
glibc-common-2.12-1.47.el6_2.9.x86_64.rpm
glibc-devel-2.12-1.47.el6_2.9.i686.rpm
glibc-devel-2.12-1.47.el6_2.9.x86_64.rpm
glibc-headers-2.12-1.47.el6_2.9.x86_64.rpm
glibc-static-2.12-1.47.el6_2.9.i686.rpm
glibc-static-2.12-1.47.el6_2.9.x86_64.rpm
glibc-utils-2.12-1.47.el6_2.9.x86_64.rpm
nscd-2.12-1.47.el6_2.9.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/glibc-2.12-1.47.el6_2.9.src.rpm


Description of changes:

[2.12-1.47.el6_2.9]
- Always use another area after a failed allocation in the
     main arena (#795328)
   - Remove sse3 memcpy (#695812) changes (#799259)

[2.12-1.47.el6_2.8]
- Avoid "nargs" integer overflow which could be used to bypass 
FORTIFY_SOURCE (#794815)

[2.12-1.47.el6_2.7]
- Fix locking on malloc family retry paths (#795328)

[2.12-1.47.el6_2.6]
ELSA-2012-0393 Moderate: Oracle Linux 6 glibc security and bug fix update





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