Name : gc Product : Fedora 17 Version : 7.2b Release : 2.fc17 URL : http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/ Summary : A garbage collector for C and C++ Description : The Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector can be used as a garbage collecting replacement for C malloc or C++ new.
Backport upstream fixes for memory allocation related overflows ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ChangeLog:
* Fri Jun 15 2012 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> - 7.2b-2 - backport patches from gc-7_2-hotfix-2 branch in lieu of 7.2c release - gc 7.2 final abi broken when changing several symbols to hidden (#825473) - gc: malloc() and calloc() overflows (CVE-2012-2673, #828881) * Wed May 30 2012 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> 7.2b-1 - gc-7.2b * Mon May 14 2012 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> - 7.2-1 - gc-7.2 (final) * Fri Mar 2 2012 Rex Dieter <rdieter@fedoraproject.org> 7.2-0.7.alpha6 - libatomic_ops: use -DAO_USE_PTHREAD_DEFS on ARMv5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - References:
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update gc' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.