RHBA-2005:538 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated pdksh package is now available.

Description

The pdksh package contains PD-ksh, a clone of the Korn shell (ksh).
The ksh shell is a command interpreter intended for both interactive
and shell script use. Ksh's command language is a superset of the sh
shell language.

1) Emacs and gmacs modes in pdksh did not display the typed in commands when
the command prompt was set to a very long string.

2) Pdksh waited for tty input in non-interactive scripts and used all
available CPU time while waiting.

3) pdksh segfaults or prints corrupted script names (i.e. when printing
error messages).

Users should upgrade to this updated package, which resolves this issue.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc

Fixes

• BZ - 149325 - set -m hangs in non-interactive session

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)