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Oracle alert ELSA-2016-0176 (glibc)

From:  Errata Announcements for Oracle Linux <el-errata@oss.oracle.com>
To:  el-errata@oss.oracle.com
Subject:  [El-errata] ELSA-2016-0176 Critical: Oracle Linux 7 glibc security and bug fix update
Date:  Tue, 16 Feb 2016 15:22:23 -0800
Message-ID:  <56C3AF2F.2000907@oracle.com>

Oracle Linux Security Advisory ELSA-2016-0176 http://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2016-0176.html The following updated rpms for Oracle Linux 7 have been uploaded to the Unbreakable Linux Network: x86_64: glibc-2.17-106.0.1.el7_2.4.i686.rpm glibc-2.17-106.0.1.el7_2.4.x86_64.rpm glibc-common-2.17-106.0.1.el7_2.4.x86_64.rpm glibc-devel-2.17-106.0.1.el7_2.4.i686.rpm glibc-devel-2.17-106.0.1.el7_2.4.x86_64.rpm glibc-headers-2.17-106.0.1.el7_2.4.x86_64.rpm glibc-static-2.17-106.0.1.el7_2.4.i686.rpm glibc-static-2.17-106.0.1.el7_2.4.x86_64.rpm glibc-utils-2.17-106.0.1.el7_2.4.x86_64.rpm nscd-2.17-106.0.1.el7_2.4.x86_64.rpm SRPMS: http://oss.oracle.com/ol7/SRPMS-updates/glibc-2.17-106.0.... Description of changes: [2.17-106.0.1.4] - Remove strstr and strcasestr implementations using sse4.2 instructions. - Upstream commits 584b18eb4df61ccd447db2dfe8c8a7901f8c8598 and 1818483b15d22016b0eae41d37ee91cc87b37510 backported. [2.17-106.4] - Revert problematic libresolv change, not needed for the CVE-2015-7547 fix (#1296030). [2.17-106.3] - Fix CVE-2015-7547: getaddrinfo() stack-based buffer overflow (#1296030). - Fix madvise performance issues (#1298930). - Avoid "monstartup: out of memory" error on powerpc64le (#1298956). [2.17-106.2] - Fix CVE-2015-5229: calloc() may return non-zero memory (#1296453). _______________________________________________ El-errata mailing list El-errata@oss.oracle.com https://oss.oracle.com/mailman/listinfo/el-errata


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