Please Install the Updated Packages.

The glibc packages provide the standard C and standard math libraries used by multiple programs on the system. Without these libraries, the Linux system cannot function properly. Multiple integer overflow flaws, leading to stack-based buffer overflows, were found in glibc's functions for converting a string to a numeric representation (strtod(), strtof(), and strtold()). If an application used such a function on attacker controlled input, it could cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2012-3480) This update also fixes the following bug: * Previously, logic errors in various mathematical functions, including exp, exp2, expf, exp2f, pow, sin, tan, and rint, caused inconsistent results when the functions were used with the non-default rounding mode. This could also cause applications to crash in some cases. With this update, the functions now give correct results across the four different rounding modes. (BZ#839411) All users of glibc are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.

glibc on Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)

• https://www.redhat.com/archives/rhsa-announce/2012-August/msg00027.html

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Updated on 2015-03-25