-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2013-12169 2013-11-23 01:51:58 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Name : gc Product : Fedora EPEL 5 Version : 7.1 Release : 6.el5 URL : http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/Hans_Boehm/gc/ Summary : A garbage collector for C and C++ Description : The Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector can be used as a garbage collecting replacement for C malloc or C++ new.

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Fix for CVE-2012-2673, see the bugreport. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:

[ 1 ] Bug #828882 - gc: malloc() and calloc() overflows [epel-5] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=828882 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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