[El-errata] ELBA-2015-1822 Oracle Linux 6 glibc bug fix update

Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux el-errata at oss.oracle.com
Tue Sep 22 23:21:03 PDT 2015


Oracle Linux Bug Fix Advisory ELBA-2015-1822

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELBA-2015-1822.html

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

i386:
glibc-2.12-1.166.el6_7.3.i686.rpm
glibc-common-2.12-1.166.el6_7.3.i686.rpm
glibc-devel-2.12-1.166.el6_7.3.i686.rpm
glibc-headers-2.12-1.166.el6_7.3.i686.rpm
glibc-static-2.12-1.166.el6_7.3.i686.rpm
glibc-utils-2.12-1.166.el6_7.3.i686.rpm
nscd-2.12-1.166.el6_7.3.i686.rpm

x86_64:
glibc-2.12-1.166.el6_7.3.i686.rpm
glibc-2.12-1.166.el6_7.3.x86_64.rpm
glibc-common-2.12-1.166.el6_7.3.x86_64.rpm
glibc-devel-2.12-1.166.el6_7.3.i686.rpm
glibc-devel-2.12-1.166.el6_7.3.x86_64.rpm
glibc-headers-2.12-1.166.el6_7.3.x86_64.rpm
glibc-static-2.12-1.166.el6_7.3.i686.rpm
glibc-static-2.12-1.166.el6_7.3.x86_64.rpm
glibc-utils-2.12-1.166.el6_7.3.x86_64.rpm
nscd-2.12-1.166.el6_7.3.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/glibc-2.12-1.166.el6_7.3.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.12-1.166.3]
- Check for NULL arena pointer in _int_pvalloc (#1256890).
- Don't change no_dyn_threshold on mallopt failure (#1256891).

[2.12-1.166.2]
- Unlock main arena after allocation in calloc (#1256812).
- Enable robust malloc change again (#1256812).
- Fix perturbing in malloc on free and simply perturb_byte (#1256812).
- Don't fall back to mmap prematurely (#1256812).





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