[Lazarus] ANN: Glibc - Mega bug found

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
> Hi everybody,
> 
> Better make sure your Linux distro patches Glibc.
> 
>   http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35592916

I think Graeme could usefully have added that this is believed to affect 
something like glibc 2.9 through 2.22.

I believe that it's possible to get the currently-installed version 
number using  ldd --version  However according to Ulrich Drepper the 
official way is to run the library:

$ locate libc.so
/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
..

$ /lib/i386-linux-gnu/libc.so.6
GNU C Library (Debian GLIBC 2.19-18+deb8u2) stable release version 2.19, 
by Roland McGrath et al.
..
Compiled on a Linux 3.16.7 system on 2016-01-01.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
markMLl .AT. telemetry.co .DOT. uk

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