Bug 1322544 – Segmentation violation can occur within glibc if fork() is used in a multi-threaded application

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Bug 1322544 - Segmentation violation can occur within glibc if fork() is used in a multi-threaded application

Summary:	Segmentation violation can occur within glibc if fork() is used in a multi-th...

Status:	CLOSED ERRATA

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
Classification:	Red Hat
Component:	glibc (Show other bugs)
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Version:	7.3
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	unspecified Severity medium
Target Milestone:	rc
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Assigned To:	Martin Sebor
QA Contact:	Sergey Kolosov
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Depends On:	1275384
Blocks:	1413146
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Reported:	2016-03-30 13:14 EDT by Carlos O'Donell
Modified:	2017-08-01 14:06 EDT (History)
CC List:	10 users (show)

See Also:	1323134
Fixed In Version:	glibc-2.17-175.el7
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Multithreaded applications no longer crash when calling dprintf() and fork() concurrently Multithreaded applications that use the dprintf() and fork() glibc functions concurrently could previously terminate unexpectedly with a segmentation fault. With this update, the fork() implementation has been fixed to ignore temporary streams created by dprintf(), and the described problem no longer occurs.
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Clone Of:	1275384
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Last Closed:	2017-08-01 14:06:55 EDT
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Tracker	ID	Priority	Status	Summary	Last Updated
Sourceware	12847	None	None	None	2016-03-30 13:14 EDT
Red Hat Product Errata	RHSA-2017:1916	normal	SHIPPED_LIVE	Moderate: glibc security, bug fix, and enhancement update	2017-08-01 14:05:43 EDT

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Comment 2 Florian Weimer 2016-10-11 16:05:48 EDT

A fix for this issue should also pick up the fix for bug 1323134.

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-01 14:06:55 EDT

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1916

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