Fedora 21 Update: libdb4-4.8.30-18.fc21

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2015-8794
2015-05-25 20:40:07
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Name        : libdb4
Product     : Fedora 21
Version     : 4.8.30
Release     : 18.fc21
URL         : http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db/
Summary     : The Berkeley DB database library (version 4) for C
Description :
The Berkeley Database (Berkeley DB) is a programmatic toolkit that
provides embedded database support for both traditional and
client/server applications. The Berkeley DB includes B+tree, Extended
Linear Hashing, Fixed and Variable-length record access methods,
transactions, locking, logging, shared memory caching, and database
recovery. The Berkeley DB supports C, C++, Java, and Perl APIs. It is
used by many applications, including Python and Perl, so this should
be installed on all systems.

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Update Information:

Applied upstream-provided patches for fixing a heap corruption.
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ChangeLog:

* Fri May 22 2015 Jan Stanek <jstanek at redhat.com> - 4.8.30-18
- Add upstream fix for memp_stat heap corruption.
- Resolves: rhbz#1211871
* Sat May  2 2015 Kalev Lember <kalevlember at gmail.com> - 4.8.30-17
- Rebuilt for GCC 5 C++11 ABI change
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #1211871 - heap corruption by memp_stat
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1211871
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