Oracle alert ELSA-2015-2199 (glibc)

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[El-errata] ELSA-2015-2199 Moderate: Oracle Linux 7 glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update 
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Wed, 25 Nov 2015 08:06:01 -0800
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Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2015-2199

http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2015-2199.html

The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 7 have been uploaded to the 
Unbreakable Linux Network:

x86_64:
glibc-2.17-105.0.1.el7.i686.rpm
glibc-2.17-105.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
glibc-common-2.17-105.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
glibc-devel-2.17-105.0.1.el7.i686.rpm
glibc-devel-2.17-105.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
glibc-headers-2.17-105.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
glibc-static-2.17-105.0.1.el7.i686.rpm
glibc-static-2.17-105.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
glibc-utils-2.17-105.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
nscd-2.17-105.0.1.el7.x86_64.rpm


SRPMS:
http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates/glibc-2.17-105.0....



Description of changes:

[2.17-105.0.1]
- Remove strstr and strcasestr implementations using sse4.2 instructions.
- Upstream commits 584b18eb4df61ccd447db2dfe8c8a7901f8c8598 and
   1818483b15d22016b0eae41d37ee91cc87b37510 backported.

[2.17-105]
- Fix up test case for initial-exec fix (#1248208).

[2.17-104]
- Mark all TLS variables in libc.so as initial-exec (#1248208).

[2.17-103]
- Apply correct fix for #1195672.

[2.17-102]
- Remove workaround for kernel netlink bug (#1089836).
- Use only 32-bit instructions in optimized 32-bit POWER functions 
(#1240796).

[2.17-101]
- Correct the AArch64 ABI baseline for libpthread (#1234622).

[2.17-100]
- Prevent tst-rec-dlopen from intermittently failing in parallel
   builds due to a missing makefile dependency (#1225959).

[2.17-99]
- Increase AArch64 TLS descriptor performance (#1202952).

[2.17-98]
- Move arch-specific header files from glibc-headers to glibc-devel 
(#1230328).

[2.17-97]
- Rebase high-precision timing support for microbenchmark (#1214326).

[2.17-96]
- Rebase microbenchmarks from upstream for performance testing (#1214326)
- Fix running microbenchmark script bench.pl from source (#1084395)

[2.17-95]
- Enable systemtap support for all architectures (#1225490).

[2.17-94]
- Fix ruserok API scalability issues (#1216246).

[2.17-93]
- Backport fixes and enhancements for ppc64 and ppc64le (#1162895).
   - Correct DT_PPC64_NUM in elf/elf.h.
   - Correct IBM long double frexpl.
   - Correct IBM long double nextafterl.

[2.17-92]
- Backport fixes for various security flaws (#1209107):
   - Prevent heap buffer overflow in swscanf (CVE-2015-1472, CVE-2015-1473,
       - Prevent integer overflow in _IO_wstr_overflow (#1195762).
   - Prevent potential denial of service in internal_fnmatch (#1197730).
   - Prevent buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and related functions
     with misaligned buffer (CVE-2015-1781, #1199525).

[2.17-91]
- Allow more shared libraries with static TLS to be loaded (#1227699).

[2.17-90]
- Work around kernel netlink bug on some specialized hardware setup 
(#1089836).
- Fix invalid file descriptor reuse when sending DNS query
   (CVE-2013-7423, #1194143).
- Sync netinet/tcp.h with the kernel (#1219891).

[2.17-89]
- Avoid deadlock in malloc on backtrace (#1207032).
- Actually test iconv modules (#1176906).
- Use calloc to allocate xports (#1159169).
- Return EAI_AGAIN for AF_UNSPEC when herrno is TRY_AGAIN (#1098042).

[2.17-88]
- Add librtkaio.abilist generated by make update-abi (#1173238).

[2.18-87]
- Enhance nscd inotify support (#1193797).

[2.17-86]
- Use NSS_STATUS_TRYAGAIN to indicate insufficient buffer (#1173537).

[2.17-85]
- Skip logging for DNSSEC responses (#1186620).
- Also apply the RHEL6.7 Makerules patch (#1189278).

[2.17-84]
- Initialize nscd stats data (#1183456).

[2.17-83]
- Resize DTV if the current DTV isn't big enough (#1189278).

[2.17-82]
- Backport an alternate implementation of strstr and strcasestr for
   x86 that doesn't use the stack for temporaries requiring 16-byte
   alignment (#1150282).

[2.17-81]
- Fix recursive dlopen() (#1165212).
- Correctly size profiling reloc table (#1144133).

[2.17-80]
- Work around a suspected gcc 4.8 bug (#1064066).

[2.17-79]
- Restructure spec file to unconditionally apply ppc64le support (#1182355).
- Fix test failure in test-ildoubl on ppc64 (#1186491).


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