Fedora 18 Update: glibc-2.16-28.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-20197
2012-12-11 23:22:04
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Name        : glibc
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 2.16
Release     : 28.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:

878913 - Backport fix for nss_db crash when db contains exactly one entry.

811753 - Backport crypto support from upstream.

859428 - use uint64_t for __bswap64

577950 - Backport of upstream BZ #5298. Don't flush buffer for ftell. Compute offsets from write pointers instead. 
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ChangeLog:

* Mon Dec 10 2012 Patsy Franklin <pfrankli at 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 at redhat.com> - 2.16-27
- Backport crypto support from upstream. (#811753)
* Thu Dec  6 2012 Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at redhat.com> - 2.16-26
- use uint64_t for __bswap64 (#859428).
* Wed Nov 28 2012 Patsy Franklin <pfrankli at 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 #878913 - nscd is segfaulting within libnss_db.so
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=878913
  [ 2 ] Bug #811753 - crypt() is broken in fips mode
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=811753
  [ 3 ] Bug #859428 - be64toh returns unsigned long long int regardless of word length
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=859428
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