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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2013-12169
2013-11-23 01:51:58
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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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Update Information:
Fix for CVE-2012-2673, see the bugreport.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #828882 - gc: malloc() and calloc() overflows [epel-5]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=828882
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update gc' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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