On Tuesday, April 19, 2011 02:07:04 AM Ron Blizzard wrote:
On Mon, Apr 18, 2011 at 4:16 PM, Tom Sorensen tsorensen@gmail.com wrote:
There is a known issue with one of the security updates on that version of glibc.
That said, it's still *highly* recommended that you update. There are four CVEs closed by this glibc update, one of which is potentially a remote privilege escalation (and that one is NOT the one that is causing the issue).
If, for some reason, you cannot update then you should seriously consider whether or not those systems can connect to the Internet, or if you should get the glibc from Scientific Linux that has the 3 patches that do not cause an issue in the meantime.
For clarification, this bug is only known to be affecting Evolution and Gnome-Panel, correct?
Those are the only known problems with this glibc version. We've been running ~2000 servers with the update and no problems for ~2 weeks.
/Peter
If so, for most servers, the update should not be a concern.
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