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HistoryNov 25, 2013 - 12:00 a.m.

glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update

2013-11-2500:00:00
Oracle
linux.oracle.com
11

0.16 Low

EPSS

Percentile

95.4%

[2.12-1.132]

  • Revert the addition of gettimeofday vDSO function for ppc and ppc64 until
    OPD VDSO function call issues are resolved (#1026533).

[2.12-1.131]

  • Call gethostbyname4_r only for PF_UNSPEC (#1022022).

[2.12-1.130]

  • Fix integer overflows in *valloc and memalign. (#1008310).

[2.12-1.129]

  • Initialize res_hconf in nscd (#970090).

[2.12-1.128]

  • Update previous patch for dcigettext.c and loadmsgcat.c (#834386).

[2.12-1.127]

  • Save search paths before performing relro protection (#988931).

[2.12-1.126]

  • Correctly name the 240-bit slow path sytemtap probe slowpow_p10 for slowpow (#905575).

[2.12-1.125]

  • Align value of stacksize in nptl-init (#663641).

[2.12-1.124]

  • Renamed release engineering directory from ‘fedora’ to `releng’ (#903754).

[2.12-1.123]

  • Backport GLIBC sched_getcpu and gettimeofday vDSO functions for ppc (#929302).
  • Fall back to local DNS if resolv.conf does not define nameservers (#928318).
  • Add systemtap probes to slowexp and slowpow (#905575).

[2.12-1.122]

  • Fix getaddrinfo stack overflow resulting in application crash (CVE-2013-1914, #951213).
  • Fix multibyte character processing crash in regexp (CVE-2013-0242, #951213).

[2.12-1.121]

  • Add netgroup cache support for nscd (#629823).

[2.12-1.120]

  • Fix multiple nss_compat initgroups() bugs (#966778).
  • Don’t use simple lookup for AF_INET when AI_CANONNAME is set (#863384).

[2.12-1.119]

  • Add MAP_HUGETLB and MAP_STACK support (#916986).
  • Update translation for stale file handle error (#970776).

[2.12-1.118]

  • Improve performance of _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN (#rh952422).
  • Fix up _init in pt-initfini to accept arguments (#663641).

[2.12-1.117]

  • Set reasonable limits on xdr requests to prevent memory leaks (#848748).

[2.12-1.116]

  • Fix mutex locking for PI mutexes on spurious wake-ups on pthread condvars
    (#552960).
  • New environment variable GLIBC_PTHREAD_STACKSIZE to set thread stack size
    (#663641).

[2.12-1.115]

  • Improved handling of recursive calls in backtrace (#868808).

[2.12-1.114]

  • The ttyname and ttyname_r functions on Linux now fall back to searching for
    the tty file descriptor in /dev/pts or /dev if /proc is not available. This
    allows creation of chroots without the procfs mounted on /proc. (#851470)

[2.12-1.113]

  • Don’t free rpath strings allocated during startup until after
    ld.so is re-relocated. (#862094)

[2.12-1.112]

  • Consistantly MANGLE/DEMANGLE function pointers.
    Fix use after free in dcigettext.c (#834386).

[2.12-1.111]

  • Change rounding mode only when necessary (#966775).

[2.12-1.110]

  • Backport of code to allow incremental loading of library list (#886968).

[2.12-1.109]

  • Fix loading of audit libraries when TLS is in use (#919562)

[2.12-1.108]

  • Fix application of SIMD FP exception mask (#929388).