[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: glibc-2.18-9.fc20

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-17423
2013-09-23 22:47:31
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Name        : glibc
Product     : Fedora 20
Version     : 2.18
Release     : 9.fc20
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:

Existing statically linked applications must be rebuilt to fix CVE-2013-4788.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1007545 - CVE-2013-4332 glibc: three integer overflows in memory allocator
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1007545
  [ 2 ] Bug #985625 - CVE-2013-4788 glibc: PTR_MANGLE does not initialize to a random value for the pointer guard when compiling static executables
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=985625
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update glibc' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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