[ol7_latest_archive] glibc-utils-2.17-157.el7_3.1.x86_64

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.

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• Thu Oct 27 2016 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> - 2.17-157.1

  - Do not set initgroups in default nsswitch.conf (#1388638)
  - nss_db: Request larger buffers for long group entries (#1388637)
  - nss_db: Fix get*ent crash without preceding set*ent (#1388635)
  - nss_db: Fix endless loop in services database processing (#1388639)

• Thu Aug 11 2016 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> - 2.17-157

  - Rebuild with updated binutils (#1268008)

• Tue Jul 19 2016 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> - 2.17-156

  - malloc arena free free list management fix (#1276753)

• Wed Jun 29 2016 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> - 2.17-155

  - Basic validity check for locale-archive.tmpl (#1350733)

• Wed Jun 22 2016 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> - 2.17-153

  - Add Intel AVX-512 optimized routines (#1298526).

• Wed Jun 22 2016 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> - 2.17-151

  - Improve malloc peformance in low-memory situations (#1255822).

• Wed Jun 22 2016 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> - 2.17-150

  - Improve performance on Intel Knights Landing/Silvermont (#1292018).

• Tue Jun 21 2016 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> - 2.17-149

  - Improve performance on Intel Purley (#1335286).

• Mon Jun 20 2016 Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com> - 2.17-148

  - Support upstream build infrastrucutre changes (#1256317).

• Sun Jun 19 2016 Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> - 2.17-147

  - CVE-2016-3075: Stack overflow in nss_dns_getnetbyname_r (#1321993)