- Issued:
- 2005-09-28
- Updated:
- 2005-09-28
RHBA-2005:626 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
util-linux and mount bug fix update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Topic
Updated util-linux and mount packages that fix several bugs are now
available.
Description
The util-linux package contains a collection of basic system utilities.
The mount package contains a utility that makes a file system available for
use.
This update adds the following features to the mount command:
- support for systems where the same partition is shared between different
devices (e.g. multipath kernel drivers)
- support for OCFS and OCFS2 file systems
This update also fixes the following bugs:
- An issue with the group password in the newgrp command
- A hang on FSC P250 in the hwclock command
- An incomplete man page for the umount command
- An incorrect label in the ipcs command output
- Incorrect information in the fstab man page
- The /etc/shadow and /etc/gshadow permissions after the vipw command usage
- A buffer overflow in the sfdisk command
- An exit if the NFS server drops the request for the mount command with
the "fg" option
- A default TCP retransmit timeout on NFS mounts
- The mount command and am-utils use different mtab locking
All users of util-linux and mount should upgrade to these updated packages,
which resolve these issues.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied. Use Red Hat
Network to download and update your packages. To launch the Red Hat
Update Agent, use the following command:
up2date
For information on how to install packages manually, refer to the
following Web page for the System Administration or Customization
guide specific to your system:
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 3 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 3 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 3 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 3 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 3 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 3 s390
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 3 ppc
Fixes
- BZ - 138775 - NFS mount command should retry "fg" mount requests
- BZ - 143118 - am-utils and autofs use different mtab locking
- BZ - 149211 - Boot hangs due to hwclock on FSC P250
- BZ - 149894 - `umount -f` does not appear to actually work
- BZ - 151097 - Default TCP retransmit timeout too fast on NFS mounts
- BZ - 151156 - ipcs -t output incorrectly labels semaphore section as "shared memory"
- BZ - 154202 - wrong duplicate labels detection
- BZ - 159418 - sfdisk unusable - crashes immediately on invocation
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.