I just read here that there is security bug in glibc and that it is already fixed.
I found out, that the actual installed version of glibc can be shown by ldd --version
. My systems runs version 2.19.
So I want now to upgrade it but I don't know how to do so. (I don't want to upgrade the whole system). I tried to find out which package contains glibc with apt-cache search glibc
. But there are hundred of packages…
So does anybody know how to find out the package which I need to upgrade to get the new version of glibc?
Best Answer
As j0h described, I was able to solve my problem. Here is what I have done:
apt-get update
to update the database.apt-cache policy libc6
to find out the installed version and the candidate version, whereas the installed version can be also shown withldd --version
.apt-get install libc6