Oracle alert ELSA-2015-0863 (glibc)

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[El-errata] ELSA-2015-0863 Moderate: Oracle Linux 6 glibc security and bug fix update 
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Tue, 21 Apr 2015 10:48:10 -0700
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Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2015-0863

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-0863.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 6 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

i386:
glibc-2.12-1.149.el6_6.7.i686.rpm
glibc-common-2.12-1.149.el6_6.7.i686.rpm
glibc-devel-2.12-1.149.el6_6.7.i686.rpm
glibc-headers-2.12-1.149.el6_6.7.i686.rpm
glibc-static-2.12-1.149.el6_6.7.i686.rpm
glibc-utils-2.12-1.149.el6_6.7.i686.rpm
nscd-2.12-1.149.el6_6.7.i686.rpm

x86_64:
glibc-2.12-1.149.el6_6.7.i686.rpm
glibc-2.12-1.149.el6_6.7.x86_64.rpm
glibc-common-2.12-1.149.el6_6.7.x86_64.rpm
glibc-devel-2.12-1.149.el6_6.7.i686.rpm
glibc-devel-2.12-1.149.el6_6.7.x86_64.rpm
glibc-headers-2.12-1.149.el6_6.7.x86_64.rpm
glibc-static-2.12-1.149.el6_6.7.i686.rpm
glibc-static-2.12-1.149.el6_6.7.x86_64.rpm
glibc-utils-2.12-1.149.el6_6.7.x86_64.rpm
nscd-2.12-1.149.el6_6.7.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol6/SRPMS-updates/glibc-2.12-1.149....



Description of changes:

[2.12-1.149.7]
- Fix invalid file descriptor reuse while sending DNS query
   (#1207995, CVE-2013-7423).
- Fix buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r with misaligned buffer
   (#1209375, CVE-2015-1781).

[2.12-1.149.6]
- Enhance nscd to detect any configuration file changes (#1194149).


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