[El-errata] ELSA-2016-0175 Critical: Oracle Linux 6 glibc security and bug fix update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2016-0175

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-0175.html

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

i386:
glibc-2.12-1.166.el6_7.7.i686.rpm
glibc-common-2.12-1.166.el6_7.7.i686.rpm
glibc-devel-2.12-1.166.el6_7.7.i686.rpm
glibc-headers-2.12-1.166.el6_7.7.i686.rpm
glibc-static-2.12-1.166.el6_7.7.i686.rpm
glibc-utils-2.12-1.166.el6_7.7.i686.rpm
nscd-2.12-1.166.el6_7.7.i686.rpm

x86_64:
glibc-2.12-1.166.el6_7.7.i686.rpm
glibc-2.12-1.166.el6_7.7.x86_64.rpm
glibc-common-2.12-1.166.el6_7.7.x86_64.rpm
glibc-devel-2.12-1.166.el6_7.7.i686.rpm
glibc-devel-2.12-1.166.el6_7.7.x86_64.rpm
glibc-headers-2.12-1.166.el6_7.7.x86_64.rpm
glibc-static-2.12-1.166.el6_7.7.i686.rpm
glibc-static-2.12-1.166.el6_7.7.x86_64.rpm
glibc-utils-2.12-1.166.el6_7.7.x86_64.rpm
nscd-2.12-1.166.el6_7.7.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/glibc-2.12-1.166.el6_7.7.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.12-1.166.7]
- Update fix for CVE-2015-7547 (#1296028).

[2.12-1.166.6]
- Create helper threads with enough stack for POSIX AIO and timers 
(#1301625).

[2.12-1.166.5]
- Fix CVE-2015-7547: getaddrinfo() stack-based buffer overflow (#1296028).

[2.12-1.166.4]
- Support loading more libraries with static TLS (#1291270).