development/debug

glibc-debuginfo - Debug information for package glibc

Website: http://www.gnu.org/software/glibc/
License: LGPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ with exceptions and GPLv2+
Description:
This package provides debug information for package glibc.
Debug information is useful when developing applications that use this
package or when debugging this package.

This package also contains static standard C libraries with
debugging information.  You need this only if you want to step into
C library routines during debugging programs statically linked against
one or more of the standard C libraries.
To use this debugging information, you need to link binaries
with -static -L/usr/lib/debug/usr/lib compiler options.

Packages

glibc-debuginfo-2.20-9.fc21.i686 [10.7 MiB] Changelog by Kevin Kofler (2016-02-18):
- Apply various security fixes from Fedora 22:
  - CVE-2015-8777: Apply additional pointer guard hardening.  (#1276761)
  - CVE-2015-1781: glibc: buffer overflow in gethostbyname_r and
    related functions with misaligned buffer.  (#1214152)
  - CVE-2015-7547: Stack-based buffer overflow in getaddrinfo (#1308943).
- Apply various security fixes from CentOS 7:
  - Prevent integer overflow in _IO_wstr_overflow (#1195762).
  - Prevent potential denial of service in internal_fnmatch (#1197730).
- Disable tests, they take too long to run.

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