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glibc-utils - Development utilities from GNU C library

Website: http://www.gnu.org/software/glibc/
License: LGPLv2+ and LGPLv2+ with exceptions and GPLv2+
Description:
The glibc-utils package contains memusage, a memory usage profiler,
mtrace, a memory leak tracer and xtrace, a function call tracer
which can be helpful during program debugging.

If unsure if you need this, don't install this package.

Packages

glibc-utils-2.20-9.fc21.i686 [28 KiB] 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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