[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: glibc-2.16-30.fc18
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-4100
2013-03-20 20:46:57
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Name : glibc
Product : Fedora 18
Version : 2.16
Release : 30.fc18
URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/glibc/
Summary : The GNU libc libraries
Description :
The glibc package contains standard libraries which are used by
multiple programs on the system. In order to save disk space and
memory, as well as to make upgrading easier, common system code is
kept in one place and shared between programs. This particular package
contains the most important sets of shared libraries: the standard C
library and the standard math library. Without these two libraries, a
Linux system will not function.
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Update Information:
Fix multibyte character processing crash in regexp (CVE-2013-0242). Fix ownership of
/usr/lib[64]/audit (#894307). Rename release engineering directory to `releng'
(#903754).
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ChangeLog:
* Sun Mar 17 2013 Carlos O'Donell <carlos(a)redhat.com> - 2.16-30
- Fix ownership of /usr/lib[64]/audit (#894307).
- Rename release engineering directory to `releng' (#903754).
- Fix multibyte character processing crash in regexp (#905874, #905877, CVE-2013-0242)
* Wed Dec 26 2012 Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh(a)redhat.com> - 2.16-29
Fix sparc build with older compilers. (#890035)
* Mon Dec 10 2012 Patsy Franklin <pfrankli(a)redhat.com> - 2.16-28
- Backport fix for nss_db crash when db contains exactly one entry.(#878913)
* Fri Dec 7 2012 Patsy Franklin <pfrankli(a)redhat.com> - 2.16-27
- Backport crypto support from upstream. (#811753)
* Thu Dec 6 2012 Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh(a)redhat.com> - 2.16-26
- use uint64_t for __bswap64 (#859428).
* Wed Nov 28 2012 Patsy Franklin <pfrankli(a)redhat.com> - 2.16-25
- Backport of upstream BZ #5298. Don't flush buffer for ftell.
Compute offsets from write pointers instead. (#577950)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #905874 - CVE-2013-0242 glibc: Buffer overrun (DoS) in regexp matcher by
processing multibyte characters
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=905874
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