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Debian Security Advisory

DSA-4117-1 gcc-4.9 -- security update

Date Reported:

17 Feb 2018

Affected Packages:

gcc-4.9

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

No other external database security references currently available.

More information:

This update doesn't fix a vulnerability in GCC itself, but instead provides support for building retpoline-enabled Linux kernel updates.

For the oldstable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in version 4.9.2-10+deb8u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your gcc-4.9 packages.

For the detailed security status of gcc-4.9 please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/gcc-4.9