[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: glibc-2.15-54.fc17

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-11508
2012-08-05 20:51:51
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Name        : glibc
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 2.15
Release     : 54.fc17
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:

Avoid unbound alloca in vfprintf (#841318)

Revert patch for BZ696143, it made it impossible to use IPV6
    addresses explicitly in getaddrinfo, which in turn broke
    ssh, apache and other code. (#808147)

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ChangeLog:

* Fri Aug  3 2012 Patsy Franklin <pfrankli at redhat.com> - 2.15.54
- Remove two extraneous lines from previous patch for BZ841318 (#841318)
* Thu Jul 26 2012 Jeff Law <law at redhat.com> - 2.15.53
- Revert patch for BZ696143, it made it impossible to use IPV6
    addresses explicitly in getaddrinfo, which in turn broke
    ssh, apache and other code. (#808147)
  - Avoid unbound alloca in vfprintf (#841318)
* Wed Jul 25 2012 Jeff Law <law at redhat.com> - 2.15.52
- Revert recent changes to res_send (804630, 835090).
  - Fix memcpy args in res_send (#841787).
* Tue Jul  3 2012 Jeff Law <law at redhat.com> - 2.15.51
- Fix FMA4 detection (#829011)
* Thu Jun 28 2012 Jeff Law <law at redhat.com> - 2.15.50
- Fix regression after patch for BZ804630 (#835090).
* Wed Jun 20 2012 Jeff Law <law at redhat.com> - 2.15.49
- Fix use-after-free in dcigettext.c (#816647).
* Tue Jun 19 2012 Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> - 2.15-48
- remove armhfp linker changes  needs more testing in rawhide before we consider backporting to f17
* Fri Jun 15 2012 Patsy Franklin <pfrankli at redhat.com> - 2.15.47
- Delay setting DECIDED field in locale file structure until
    we have read the file's data (#827510).
* Mon Jun 11 2012 Dennis Gilmore <dennis at ausil.us> - 2.15-46
- only deal with the arm linker compat hack on armhfp arches 
- armsfp arches do not have a linker change
* Fri Jun  8 2012 Jeff Law <law at redhat.com> - 2.15.45
- Backward compat hack for armhf binaries.
* Thu Jun  7 2012 Patsy Franklin <patsy at redhat.com> - 2.15.44
- Fix option rotate with single IPV6 server (#804630)
* Thu Jun  7 2012 Patsy Franklin <patsy at redhat.com> - 2.15.43
- Do not override TTL of CNAME with TTL of its alias. (#808014)
* Tue Jun  5 2012 Patsy Franklin <patsy at redhat.com> - 2.15.42
- Last edit accidently removed %patch2058.
* Tue Jun  5 2012 Patsy Franklin <patsy at redhat.com> - 2.15.41
- Fix DoS in RPC implementation (#767693)
* Tue Jun  5 2012 Patsy Franklin <patsy at redhat.com> - 2.15.40
- Fix iconv() segfault when the invalid multibyte character 0xffff is input
    when converting from IBM930 (#823905)
* Fri Jun  1 2012 Jeff Law <law at redhat.com> - 2.15-39
- Update arm specific configury.
* Thu May 24 2012 Patsy Franklin <pfrankli at redhat.com> - 2.15-38
- Fix fnmatch() when '*' wildcard is applied on a file name containing
    multibyte chars.  (#819430)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #841318 - CVE-2012-3405 CVE-2012-3406 glibc various flaws [fedora-all]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=841318
  [ 2 ] Bug #808147 - getaddrinfo("::1") now fails on an otherwise-ipv4-only system
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=808147
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