RHBA-2010:0007 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated dosfstools package that fixes two bugs is now available.

Description

The dosfstools package includes the mkdosfs and dosfsck utilities, which
respectively make and check File Allocation Table (FAT) file systems on
hard drives or on floppies.

This updated package provides fixes for the following bugs:

• when a FAT file system was created on a device-mapper device, if the

drive geometry was not reported correctly to mkdosfs, the command printed
it was "unable to get drive geometry" and was using the default drive
geometry (255/63) instead. Because of an error, it did not, in fact, do
this. Consequently, dosfslabel could not set a label for the newly-created
file system. With this update, the error in the mkdosfs command was
corrected: when the drive geometry is not correctly reported, mkdosfs now
sets the drive geometry to the default values as per its message to STD
OUT. Consequently, FAT file systems created with mkdosfs are now correct
and dosfslabel can set its label. (BZ#249067)

• although dosfstools contains ELF objects, the dosfstools-debuginfo

package was empty. With this update the -debuginfo package contains valid
debugging information as expected. (BZ#469842)

All dosfstools users should upgrade to this updated package, 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 - 249067 - dosfslabel fails to read/write label on device-mapper device
• BZ - 469842 - dosfstools-debuginfo is empty

CVEs

(none)

References

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