[El-errata] ELSA-2017-0680 Moderate: Oracle Linux 6 glibc security and bug fix update

Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux el-errata at oss.oracle.com
Tue Mar 28 10:07:19 PDT 2017


Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2017-0680

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2017-0680.html

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

i386:
glibc-2.12-1.209.0.1.el6.i686.rpm
glibc-common-2.12-1.209.0.1.el6.i686.rpm
glibc-devel-2.12-1.209.0.1.el6.i686.rpm
glibc-headers-2.12-1.209.0.1.el6.i686.rpm
glibc-static-2.12-1.209.0.1.el6.i686.rpm
glibc-utils-2.12-1.209.0.1.el6.i686.rpm
nscd-2.12-1.209.0.1.el6.i686.rpm

x86_64:
glibc-2.12-1.209.0.1.el6.i686.rpm
glibc-2.12-1.209.0.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
glibc-common-2.12-1.209.0.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
glibc-devel-2.12-1.209.0.1.el6.i686.rpm
glibc-devel-2.12-1.209.0.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
glibc-headers-2.12-1.209.0.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
glibc-static-2.12-1.209.0.1.el6.i686.rpm
glibc-static-2.12-1.209.0.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
glibc-utils-2.12-1.209.0.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
nscd-2.12-1.209.0.1.el6.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/glibc-2.12-1.209.0.1.el6.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.12-1.209.0.1]
- Update newmode size to fix a possible corruption

[2.12-1.209]
- Fix AF_INET6 getaddrinfo with nscd (#1416496)

[2.12-1.208]
- Update tests for struct sockaddr_storage changes (#1338673)

[2.12-1.207]
- Use FL_CLOEXEC in internal calls to fopen (#1012343).

[2.12-1.206]
- Fix CVE-2015-8779 glibc: Unbounded stack allocation in catopen function
   (#1358015).

[2.12-1.205]
- Make padding in struct sockaddr_storage explicit (#1338673)

[2.12-1.204]
- Fix detection of Intel FMA hardware (#1384281).

[2.12-1.203]
- Add support for el_GR at euro, ur_IN, and wal_ET locales (#1101858).

[2.12-1.202]
- Change malloc/tst-malloc-thread-exit.c to use fewer threads and
   avoid timeout (#1318380).

[2.12-1.201]
- df can fail on some systems (#1307029).

[2.12-1.200]
- Log uname, cpuinfo, meminfo during build (#1307029).

[2.12-1.199]
- Draw graphs for heap and stack only if MAXSIZE_HEAP and MAXSIZE_STACK
   are non-zero (#1331304).

[2.12-1.198]
- Avoid unneeded calls to __check_pf in getadddrinfo (#1270950)

[2.12-1.197]
- Fix CVE-2015-8778 glibc: Integer overflow in hcreate and hcreate_r
   (#1358013).

[2.12-1.196]
- Fix CVE-2015-8776 glibc: Segmentation fault caused by passing
   out-of-range data to strftime() (#1358011).

[2.12-1.195]
- tzdata-update: Ignore umask setting (#1373646)

[2.12-1.194]
- CVE-2014-9761: Fix unbounded stack allocation in nan* (#1358014)

[2.12-1.193]
- Avoid using uninitialized data in getaddrinfo (#1223095)





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