RHBA-2009:0294 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated unix2dos2 packages that resolve a bug are now available.

Description

The unix2dos utility converts UNIX text files to DOS or MAC format.

This updated package provides a fix for the following bug:

• when unix2dos created a new file as the output of its conversion (when

run with the -n option), the new file would always have its permission mode
set as 600, regardless of the permission mode of the original file.
Unix2dos now sets the permission mode for the new file to be the same as
the mode of the old file, filtered through the user's umask.

Users of unix2dos should upgrade to this updated package, which resolves
this issue.

Solution

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

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 437469 - "unix2dos -n" creates files with overly restrictive permissions

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)