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Redhat : Updated glibc packages
Red Hat Network has determined that the following advisory is applicable to
one or more of the systems you have registered:
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Bug Fix Advisory - RHBA-2004:384-11
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Summary:
Updated glibc packages
Updated glibc packages that address several bugs and implement some
enhancements are now available.
Description:
The GNU libc packages (known as glibc) contain the standard C libraries
used by applications.
This errata fixes several bugs in the GNU C Library. The largest changes
are non-executable stack support on IA32 and AMD64 as well as several
fixes to the NPTL threading library.
Fixes include (in addition to enclosed Bugzilla entries):
- clock_settime error reporting fix
- LD_DEBUG=statistics on AMD64
- PPC64 umount fix
- ffsl fixes on some architectures
- memory handling corner-case fixes in many routines
- *scanf fixes
- fixed strpbrk macro in <string.h>
- sysctl.h fix
- S_I[SF]SOCK and F_[SG]ETOWN definition corretions with various feature
test macros
- sem_timedwait error reporting
- tgmath.h fix
- AMD64 makecontext fixes
- regex translate handling fix
- fix in handling of Elf_Rela undefined TLS symbols in the dynamic linker
- -z nodelete shared library handling fix
- nss_nis reentrancy fixes
- fix for setenv handling of invalid arguments
- Itanium/AMD64 backtrace fixes for statically linked programs
- xtrace script typo fix
- timer SIGEV_NONE handling
- FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE support in NPTL has been reenabled
- __parse_one_specmb fix
- F_{GETLK,SETLK,SETLKW} fix for 32-bit LFS compilations on AMD64
- fix pmaplist destruction in sunrpc
- sqrt special values handling fix for IBM S/390 and S/390x
- fix pthread_rwlock_timed*lock and pthread_cond_timedwait invalid tv_nsec
handling
- only ship linuxthreads <bits/stdio-lock.h>
- speed up getaddrinfo by canonicalizing only first hostname with AI_CANONNAME
- make SHMLBA macro usable in C++ code
- fix pthread.h header for -std=c99 -D_XOPEN_SOURCE=600 compilation
- fix IPv6 AI_V4MAPPED filtering
- fix pow{,f,l} functions on IA-32 and x86-64
- fix some iconv modules
- fix memory handling in ifreq and loadavg
- mbsrtowcs can now handle src without zero termination
- memusage now handles big amounts of allocation data
- newlocale (3) locking fix
- NPTL pthread_rwlock_rdlock fix on IA-64, PowerPC and s390
- strtold fix
- fix for fread_unlocked and fwrite_unlocked macros
All users of glibc should upgrade to these updated packages, which
resolve these issues.
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Affected Systems List
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This Errata Advisory may apply to the systems listed below. If you know that
this errata does not apply to a system listed, it might be possible that the
package profile for that server is out of date. In that case you should run
'up2date -p' as root on the system in question to refresh your software profile.
There are 23 affected systems registered in 'Your RHN' (only systems for
which you have explicitly enabled Errata Alerts are shown).
Release Arch Profile Name
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3AS i686 durian.nac.uci.edu
3AS i686 br.nac.uci.edu
3WS x86_64 m33.ps.uci.edu
3WS i686 montana.nac.uci.edu
3AS i686 hydra.nac.uci.edu
3AS i686 p02.es.uci.edu
3AS x86_64 mpc64.nacs.uci.edu
3AS i686 mothra.nac.uci.edu
3AS x86_64 narg.nac.uci.edu
3AS i686 nebraska.nac.uci.edu
3AS athlon blee.nac.uci.edu
3AS i686 network-stats-collector-3.nacs.uci.edu
3AS i686 vesta.nac.uci.edu
3AS i686 bounce2.nac.uci.edu
3AS i686 cpl-console.nac.uci.edu
3AS x86_64 pxe.es.uci.edu
3AS athlon nomad.nac.uci.edu
3WS i686 node-xeon-4
3WS i686 node-xeon-10
3AS x86_64 iwt01.nac.uci.edu
3AS x86_64 iwt03.nac.uci.edu
3AS athlon tw1.ps.uci.edu
3AS x86_64 iwt02.nac.uci.edu
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