Name : glibc Product : Fedora 22 Version : 2.21 Release : 11.fc22 URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/glibc/ Summary : The GNU libc libraries Description : The glibc package contains standard libraries which are used by multiple programs on the system. In order to save disk space and memory, as well as to make upgrading easier, common system code is kept in one place and shared between programs. This particular package contains the most important sets of shared libraries: the standard C library and the standard math library. Without these two libraries, a Linux system will not function.
This updates addresses a critical security vulnerability in the DNS resolver related to `AF_UNSPEC` queries with `getaddrinfo` (CVE-2015-7547). It also includes security fixes for CVE-2015-8777 and CVE-2015-1781. It improves `malloc` scalability for applications which start and terminate many threads. The output of `locale -a` is now ASCII-only (previously, it contained ISO-8859-1 characters). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - References:
This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update glibc' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at https://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
