[El-errata] ELSA-2018-1879 Moderate: Oracle Linux 6 glibc security and bug fix update

[Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux]

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2018-1879

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2018-1879.html

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

i386:
glibc-2.12-1.212.0.1.el6.i686.rpm
glibc-common-2.12-1.212.0.1.el6.i686.rpm
glibc-devel-2.12-1.212.0.1.el6.i686.rpm
glibc-headers-2.12-1.212.0.1.el6.i686.rpm
glibc-static-2.12-1.212.0.1.el6.i686.rpm
glibc-utils-2.12-1.212.0.1.el6.i686.rpm
nscd-2.12-1.212.0.1.el6.i686.rpm

x86_64:
glibc-2.12-1.212.0.1.el6.i686.rpm
glibc-2.12-1.212.0.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
glibc-common-2.12-1.212.0.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
glibc-devel-2.12-1.212.0.1.el6.i686.rpm
glibc-devel-2.12-1.212.0.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
glibc-headers-2.12-1.212.0.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
glibc-static-2.12-1.212.0.1.el6.i686.rpm
glibc-static-2.12-1.212.0.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
glibc-utils-2.12-1.212.0.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
nscd-2.12-1.212.0.1.el6.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/glibc-2.12-1.212.0.1.el6.src.rpm



Description of changes:

[2.12-1.212.0.1]
- backport rh patch 1047983 from OL7, Orabug 25407655

[2.12-1.212]
- CVE-2017-15670: glob: Fix one-byte overflow with GLOB_TILDE (#1504810)
- CVE-2017-15804: glob: Fix buffer overflow in GLOB_TILDE unescaping 
(#1504810)

[2.12-1.211]
- Avoid large allocas in the dynamic linker (#1452717)

[2.12-1.210]
- Fix thread cancellation issues for setmntent() and others (#1437147).