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shield Security update for glibc
SUSE-SLE-SDK-12-2015-764

glibc was updated to fix bugs and security issues. Security issues fixed: * A buffer overflow in nss_dns was fixed that could lead to crashes. (CVE-2015-1781, bsc#927080, BZ #18287) * A denial of service attack (out of memory) in the NSS files backend was fixed (CVE-2014-8121, bsc#918187, GLIBC BZ #18007) Non security bugs fixed: * Fix regression in threaded application malloc performance (bsc#915955, GLIBC#17195) * Fix read past end of pattern in fnmatch (bsc#920338, GLIBC#17062, GLIBC#18032, GLIBC#18036) * Record TTL also for DNS PTR queries (bsc#928723, GLIBC#18513) * Increase MINSIGSTKSZ and SIGSTKSZ for aarch64 (bsc#931480, GLIBC#16850) * Fix handling of IPv6 nameservers (bsc#939211, GLIBC#13028, GLIBC#17053) * Avoid use of asm/ptrace.h (bsc#934084) * Do not corrupt the top of a threaded heap if top chunk is MINSIZE (GLIBC#18502) * Terminate unwinding after makecontext_ret on s390 (bsc#940332. bsc#944494, GLIBC#18508) * Restore signal mask in set/swapcontext on s390 (bsc#940195, bsc#944494, GLIBC#18080) * fix dlopen in static binaries (bsc#937853, GLIBC#17250) * Properly reread entry after failure in nss_files getent function (bsc#945779, BZ #18991) Features added: * AVX512 support (fate#318844) * Add compatibility symlinks for LSB 3.0 (fate#318933)

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SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 x86_64
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    glibc
    Standard Shared Libraries (from the GNU C Library)
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    C library static libraries for -static linking
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 s390x
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    glibc
    Standard Shared Libraries (from the GNU C Library)
    2.19-22.7.1 lock src
    glibc-devel-static
    C library static libraries for -static linking
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12 ppc64le
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    glibc
    Standard Shared Libraries (from the GNU C Library)
    2.19-22.7.1 lock src
    glibc-devel-static
    C library static libraries for -static linking
    2.19-22.7.1 lock rpm