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Fedora 24 glibc-arm-linux-gnu Critical Fix for Infinite Loop Threat

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Calendar Grey October 19, 2016
Dist Fedora Esm H88
This bulletin highlights a significant update for glibc-arm-linux-gnu in Fedora 24 as a result of a serious concern.
Security fix for CVE-2016-6323.

Summary

This is a Cross Compiled version of the GNU C Library, which can be used to

compile and link binaries for the arm-linux-gnu platform, instead of for the

native platform.

Update Information:

Security fix for CVE-2016-6323.

Change Log

References


[ 1 ] Bug #1383297 - CVE-2016-6323 glibc: Missing unwind info in __startcontext causes infinite loop in _Unwind_Backtrace https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1383297

Update Instructions

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use su -c 'yum update glibc-arm-linux-gnu' at the command line. For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum", available at .

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Name: glibc-arm-linux-gnu
Product: Fedora 24
Version: 2.24
Release: 2.fc24
Summary: Cross Compiled GNU C Library targeted at arm-linux-gnu

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