Fedora alert FEDORA-2012-9556 (gc)

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[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: gc-7.2b-2.fc17 
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-9556
2012-06-16 23:35:05
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Name        : gc
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 7.2b
Release     : 2.fc17
URL         : http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/
Summary     : A garbage collector for C and C++
Description :
The Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector can be
used as a garbage collecting replacement for C malloc or C++ new.

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Update Information:

Backport upstream fixes for memory allocation related overflows
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ChangeLog:

* Fri Jun 15 2012 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org>
- 7.2b-2
- backport patches from gc-7_2-hotfix-2 branch in lieu of 7.2c release
- gc 7.2 final abi broken when changing several symbols to hidden (#825473)
- gc: malloc() and calloc() overflows (CVE-2012-2673, #828881)
* Wed May 30 2012 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> 7.2b-1
- gc-7.2b
* Mon May 14 2012 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org>
- 7.2-1
- gc-7.2 (final)
* Fri Mar  2 2012 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> 7.2-0.7.alpha6
- libatomic_ops: use -DAO_USE_PTHREAD_DEFS on ARMv5
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #828878 - CVE-2012-2673 gc: malloc() and calloc() overflows
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=828878
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