RHBA-2009:1603 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated unix2dos2 package that resolves a bug is now available.

Description

The unix2dos utility converts UNIX (LF) text files to DOS (CR/LF) or
classic Mac OS (CR) format.

This updated package provides a fix for the following bug:

• when unix2dos was run with the -n option and created a new file as the

output of its conversion, the new file's permissions were 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. (BZ#531926)

Users of unix2dos 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 the 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 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 - 531926 - "unix2dos -n" creates files with overly restrictive permissions

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)