RHBA-2010:0620 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated passwd packages that fix bugs are
now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The passwd packages contain the system utility passwd which changes passwords
and displays password status information using Pluggable Authentication Modules
(PAM) and Libuser libraries.

These updated passwd packages provide fixes for the following bugs:

• while building the packages, the debuginfo packages were not correctly

generated which rendered the passwd utility unable to be debugged. With this
update, the passwd-debuginfo contains debugging symbols and the passwd utility
can now be debugged. (BZ#500615)

• previously, the description of the passwd command in the passwd(1) manual page

contained formatting errors which caused parts of the text to be missing. It
also contained inaccurate information. With this update, these errors are
corrected. (BZ#545668)

• passwd -S was not able to display the correct password types for the new

password hashes. It also returned nonzero exit values even when the password
status was displayed successfully. With this update, the correct password type
is shown in the output. (BZ#578534)

All passwd users are advised to upgrade to these updated passwd packages, which
resolve these issues.

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 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 - 500615 - passwd-debuginfo is empty
• BZ - 578534 - passwd exit status 1

CVEs

(none)

References

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