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Glibc change exposing bugs

Glibc change exposing bugs

Posted Nov 11, 2010 0:05 UTC (Thu) by bojan (subscriber, #14302)
In reply to: Glibc change exposing bugs by lmb
Parent article: Glibc change exposing bugs

What else uses glibc-2.12.90 out there apart form Fedora 14 and rawhide? Next to nothing. So, the change is being rolled out carefully. Only limited number of people will be exposed to it - the ones willing to run the latest Fedora.


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Glibc change exposing bugs

Posted Nov 11, 2010 16:35 UTC (Thu) by jedbrown (subscriber, #49919) [Link]

I assume you mean glibc-2.12 or glibc-2.12.1. 2.12 has been in Arch Linux since May, 2.12.1 since August. This issue has not affected me because the new memcpy is still forward on Core 2.

Glibc change exposing bugs

Posted Nov 12, 2010 0:02 UTC (Fri) by bojan (subscriber, #14302) [Link]

No, I mean 2.12.90:

glibc-2.12.90-18.x86_64
glibc-2.12.90-18.i686

This is an unreleased version of glibc. Fedora does this from time to time - ship early cuts of new glibc (this will be 2.13 one day).

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