Recommended update for glibc

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2019:0641-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • Basesystem Module 15
  • Development Tools Module 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 15

An update that has three fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for glibc provides the following fixes:

  • Fix Haswell CPU string flags. (bsc#1114984)
  • Fix waiters-after-spinning case. (bsc#1114993)
  • Do not relocate absolute symbols. (bsc#1112570)
  • Add glibc-locale-base subpackage containing only C, C.UTF-8 and en_US.UTF-8 locales. (fate#326551)
  • Add HWCAP_ATOMICS to HWCAP_IMPORTANT (fate#325962)
  • Remove slow paths from math routines. (fate#325815, fate#325879, fate#325880, fate#325881, fate#325882)

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • Basesystem Module 15
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Basesystem-15-2019-641=1
  • Development Tools Module 15
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-Development-Tools-15-2019-641=1

Package List:

  • Basesystem Module 15 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • glibc-2.26-13.11.4
    • glibc-devel-2.26-13.11.4
    • nscd-debuginfo-2.26-13.11.4
    • glibc-extra-debuginfo-2.26-13.11.4
    • glibc-profile-2.26-13.11.4
    • glibc-extra-2.26-13.11.4
    • glibc-devel-debuginfo-2.26-13.11.4
    • glibc-locale-base-debuginfo-2.26-13.11.4
    • glibc-debuginfo-2.26-13.11.4
    • glibc-locale-2.26-13.11.4
    • glibc-debugsource-2.26-13.11.4
    • nscd-2.26-13.11.4
    • glibc-locale-base-2.26-13.11.4
  • Basesystem Module 15 (noarch)
    • glibc-i18ndata-2.26-13.11.4
    • glibc-info-2.26-13.11.4
  • Basesystem Module 15 (x86_64)
    • glibc-32bit-debuginfo-2.26-13.11.4
    • glibc-32bit-2.26-13.11.4
  • Development Tools Module 15 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • glibc-utils-debuginfo-2.26-13.11.4
    • glibc-devel-static-2.26-13.11.4
    • glibc-utils-2.26-13.11.4
    • glibc-utils-src-debugsource-2.26-13.11.4
    • glibc-debuginfo-2.26-13.11.4
    • glibc-debugsource-2.26-13.11.4
  • Development Tools Module 15 (nosrc)
    • glibc-utils-src-2.26-13.11.4
  • Development Tools Module 15 (x86_64)
    • glibc-32bit-debuginfo-2.26-13.11.4
    • glibc-devel-32bit-2.26-13.11.4
    • glibc-devel-32bit-debuginfo-2.26-13.11.4

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