RHBA-2009:1300 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated amanda packages that fix two bugs are now available.

Description

Amanda is a network-capable tape backup solution.

These updated amanda packages resolve the following issues:

• the "amtapetype" command had a bug in memory management: an invalid

pointer was passed to the free() function. In some circumstances this
caused amrecover to fail with a "Extractor child exited with status 2"
error. The invalid pointer is no longer passed to free() and amrecover
extracts files from a tape backup as expected. (BZ#476971)

• previously, amanda sub-packages (including amanda-devel, amanda-server

and amanda-client) were only required to be the same version as amanda:
they did not check that their release was in sync with the base amanda
package. This could cause the packages to go out-of-sync and malfunction if
an attempt was made to update either the base amanda package or any of
amanda's sub-packages. With this update, both the version and release are
checked, ensuring all dependent packages remain in sync if either the base
package or any sub-packages are updated. (BZ#497111)

Users of amanda should upgrade to these updated packages, which resolves
these issues.

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 - 476971 - amanda-server: *** glibc detected *** amtapetype: free(): invalid pointer: 0xb7deb000 ***
• BZ - 497111 - amanda subpackages require only a specific version of amanda, not also release

CVEs

(none)

References

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