RHBA-2009:1482 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated newt packages that resolve several issues are now available.

Description

Newt is a programming library for color text-mode, widget-based user
interfaces. Newt can be used to add stacked windows, entry widgets, check
boxes, radio buttons, labels, plain text fields, and so on, to text mode
user interfaces.

These updated newt packages provide fixes for the following bugs:

• the whiptail(1) man page was missing from the newt package, and is now

included. (BZ#456307)

• newt did not recognize the escape sequence "\E[Z" as the Shift+Tab key

combination on VT320 terminals, and incorrectly interpreted it as "Escape".
With these updated packages, newt correctly interprets "\E[Z" as Shift+Tab.
(BZ#468046)

All users of newt are advised to 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.

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 - 456305 - whiptail --noitem option does not work for checklist and radiolist
• BZ - 456307 - whiptail: missing man page and typos in usage message
• BZ - 468046 - newt interprets shift-tab as escape on vt320

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)