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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2017-4eff8b26bc
2017-12-28 01:13:53.261902
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Name : libdb
Product : Fedora 27
Version : 5.3.28
Release : 27.fc27
URL :
http://www.oracle.com/database/berkeley-db/
Summary : The Berkeley DB database library for C
Description :
The Berkeley Database (Berkeley DB) is a programmatic toolkit that
provides embedded database support for both traditional and
client/server applications. The Berkeley DB includes B+tree, Extended
Linear Hashing, Fixed and Variable-length record access methods,
transactions, locking, logging, shared memory caching, and database
recovery. The Berkeley DB supports C, C++, Java, and Perl APIs. It is
used by many applications, including Python and Perl, so this should
be installed on all systems.
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Update Information:
Fixes a bug caused by libdb not locking its internal buffers in the correct
order when accessing pages located in a off-page duplicate (OPD) tree.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1527825 - Incorrect page lock order when accessing OPD tree
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1527825
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade libdb' at the command line.
For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
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