Fedora 27: Glibc Security Update 2018-1cbdc8cbb8 Critical Memory Fix

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 update fixes two minor security vulnerabilities in `malloc` (CVE-2018-6485,

CVE-2018-6551, RHBZ#1542102, RHBZ#1542119), and provides a C++ version of

`iseqsig`.

[ 1 ] Bug #1542102 - CVE-2018-6485 glibc: Integer overflow in posix_memalign in memalign functions

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1542102

su -c 'dnf upgrade glibc' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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https://fedoraproject.org/security/

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