Fedora 14 Update: ElectricFence-2.2.2-30.fc14

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-0594
2011-01-20 19:25:37
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Name        : ElectricFence
Product     : Fedora 14
Version     : 2.2.2
Release     : 30.fc14
URL         : http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/ElectricFence/
Summary     : A debugger which detects memory allocation violations
Description :
ElectricFence is a utility for C programming and
debugging. ElectricFence uses the virtual memory hardware of your
system to detect when software overruns malloc() buffer boundaries,
and/or to detect any accesses of memory released by
free(). ElectricFence will then stop the program on the first
instruction that caused a bounds violation and you can use your
favorite debugger to display the offending statement.

Install ElectricFence if you need a debugger to find malloc()
violations.

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Update Information:

Use the same formula as glibc uses to compute the memory alignment.
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jan 19 2011 Petr Machata <pmachata at redhat.com> - 2.2.2-30
- Use the same formula as glibc uses to align memory
- Resolves: #662085
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #662085 - ElectricFence (ef/efence) doesn't properly align memory by default
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=662085
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update ElectricFence' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key.  More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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