RHBA-2009:1607 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated mtx package that fixes one bug is now available.

Description

The mtx package contains utilities that control single or multi-drive SCSI
media changers such as tape changers, autoloaders, tape libraries, or
optical media jukeboxes. It can also be used with media changers that use
the 'ATTACHED' API, presuming that they properly report the MChanger bit as
required by the SCSI T-10 SMC specification.

This updated package provides a fix for the following bug:

• if the scsitape utility was run with an unknown command-line option (eg

"-h", a switch option not used by scsitape), the application crashed with a
Segmentation fault error. This update adds a termination entry to the end
of the pertinent scsitape array. When an unknown command-line option is
used, scsitape now exits cleanly and returns usage documentation to std
out. (BZ#513984)

All mtx users 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 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 - 513984 - /usr/sbin/scsitape -h segfaults because -h is an invalid argument

CVEs

(none)

References

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