Recommended update for glibc

SUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for glibc
Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2015:0966-1
Rating: important
References: #842291 #892065 #920965 #926939
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 LTSS

  • An update that has four recommended fixes can now be installed.

    Description:

    This update for glibc provides the following fixes:

    • Fix reading of the $LANG environment variable. (bsc#926939)
    • Avoid unbound alloca() in setenv(). (bsc#892065)
    • Fix rare segmentation fault in _wait_lookup_done(). (bsc#842291, bsc#920965)

    Package List:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 LTSS (i586 i686 s390x x86_64):
      • glibc-2.4-31.119.2
      • glibc-devel-2.4-31.119.2
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 LTSS (i586 s390x x86_64):
      • glibc-html-2.4-31.119.2
      • glibc-i18ndata-2.4-31.119.2
      • glibc-info-2.4-31.119.2
      • glibc-locale-2.4-31.119.2
      • glibc-profile-2.4-31.119.2
      • nscd-2.4-31.119.2
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 SP4 LTSS (s390x x86_64):
      • glibc-32bit-2.4-31.119.2
      • glibc-devel-32bit-2.4-31.119.2
      • glibc-locale-32bit-2.4-31.119.2
      • glibc-profile-32bit-2.4-31.119.2

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