RHBA-2011:0124 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated rpm packages that fix several bugs and add an enhancement are now
available.

Description

The RPM Package Manager (RPM) is a command line driven package management system
capable of installing, uninstalling, verifying, querying, and updating software
packages.

These updated rpm packages provide fixes for the following bugs:

• A memory leak in the communication between RPM and the Security-Enhanced Linux

(SELinux) subsystem could have caused extensive memory consumption. In reported
cases, this issue was triggered by running rhn_check when errata were scheduled
to be applied. (BZ#627630)

• When installing the libgnome package, an error was displayed:

gconftool-2: command not found

This was due to a bug in dependency ordering on multilib systems, which caused
failures of package scriptlets. With this update, the package dependencies are
fixed and the problem no longer occurs. (BZ#641892)

In addition, these updated rpm packages provide the following enhancement:

• RPM accepts GPG keys saved on Windows operating system with Windows native

line endings. (BZ#530212)

Users are advised to upgrade to these updated rpm packages, which resolve these
issues and add this enhancement.

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
https://access.redhat.com/kb/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 - 566746 - rpm: selinux context initialization memory leak

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)