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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2011:0646 - Bug Fix Advisory
Issued:
2011-05-19
Updated:
2011-05-19

RHBA-2011:0646 - Bug Fix Advisory

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Synopsis

coreutils bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

Updated coreutils packages that fix several bugs are now available.

Description

The coreutils package contains the core GNU utilities. It is the
combination of the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.

These updated packages fix the following bugs:

  • The su utility was previously not built with PIE and RELRO enabled,

as they were in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. In this update, it is built
as a PIE executable and is using RELRO protection. (BZ#630017)

  • Previously, when reading a line longer than 16KiB, the tac utility

reallocated its primary buffer. Before exiting, the tac utility tried
to free the already freed original buffer, which caused a utility crash
after a double free error displayed. This was fixed and the tac utility
no longer frees an already freed buffer. (BZ#628212)

  • Previously, the hardware control flow, DTRDSR, was implemented via

TC{SG}ETX. This was changed to TC{SG}ET ioctl, which caused the CDTRDSR
support in stty to fail. This was fixed to allow stty to correctly handle
CDTRDSR control flow. (BZ#598631)

  • Previously, the internalization patch for coreutils had an unsafe

initialization of char* bufops that left bufops uninitialized or
initialized to NULL on the first usage. This behavior called memmove
from an incorrect address, namely from address 0 and size 0. This is now
fixed and bufops is correctly initialized for the first use. (BZ#683799)

  • Previously, when the multibyte LC_TIME differed from LC_CTYPE, an

assertion failure caused the sort utility to crash irrespective of the
parameters provided to it. This is fixed to prevent a crash when the sort
utility is run and now works as expected. (BZ#649224)

  • Previously, the information page about 8-bit octal values did not

mention checking if the value was lower than 256. Due to this, when a
command like "/bin/echo -e '\0610'" was used, the results were not
accurate. This is now fixed to provide more accurate information about
the behavior of octal values. (BZ#660033)

  • Previously, when the dd utility used pipes, it read and wrote partial

blocks. When the size of the block written was shorter than the specified
maximum output block size, the "oflag=direct" would turn off, which
resulted in degraded I/O performance. The workaround for this behavior,
which involves the addition of "iflag=fullblock" is now available in the
information documentation. (BZ#614605)

  • Previously, the coreutils information page was not sufficiently

clear about behavior when multiple parent and leaf node directories are
created. This is now fixed to incorporate additional information in the
coreutils information page about the @option mode and its behavior when
combined with the --parents option. (BZ609262)

  • Previously, documentation for tail command's --sleep-interval option

did not outline the results of inotify support. This is now fixed and
the documentation states that with inotify support, the --sleep-interval
option is only relevant when the tail command reverts to the old
polling-based method. (BZ#662900)

All coreutils users are advised to upgrade to these updated 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
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

  • BZ - 598631 - stty incorrectly reports cdtrdsr
  • BZ - 609262 - mkdir info page update
  • BZ - 614605 - [Intel 6.1 Bug] direct IO with dd seems broken compared to RHEL 5.4
  • BZ - 628212 - tac has a double-free bug (input line longer than 16KiB)
  • BZ - 649224 - [abrt] sort - segfault with LC_TIME different from other multibyte locales
  • BZ - 660033 - "echo -e '\0610'" behaves unexpectedly - info doc change
  • BZ - 662900 - [6.0] Document rare usefulness of tail command's option --sleep-interval due inotify support
  • BZ - 683799 - Unsafe initialization of bufpos in i18n patch

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
coreutils-8.4-13.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 36b4369d9e144821b93d10849fb769684418b40ecd15ae2a5cbdd28e11b92a46
x86_64
coreutils-8.4-13.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 79f0f330690b7a568b6947ec5a6f24fbbfd4d44598a5ea6a637a609359ef32d8
coreutils-8.4-13.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 79f0f330690b7a568b6947ec5a6f24fbbfd4d44598a5ea6a637a609359ef32d8
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-13.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 95d0bb3efd2f6f41c610f98b4bff15c2e8c7e97debea768ad54b55fa412c9f63
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-13.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 95d0bb3efd2f6f41c610f98b4bff15c2e8c7e97debea768ad54b55fa412c9f63
coreutils-libs-8.4-13.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ee8f5d00dcf162d23074926c3002d20a0e481a7572e628cf808f89966cbb0829
coreutils-libs-8.4-13.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ee8f5d00dcf162d23074926c3002d20a0e481a7572e628cf808f89966cbb0829
i386
coreutils-8.4-13.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 91483665c98727909a06ce222a8855844ba40ab2c2f4f089cd242a347454bb4d
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-13.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 8be7460f0a2eca9710c37bbc234f56c6d702d3cfeb8f8decec19bf941edd5c37
coreutils-libs-8.4-13.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 40a3ebe9e1b3128e4b2617379d1d1dec67cd76a701f5cdba7a2dc74ecbf474f2

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6

SRPM
coreutils-8.4-13.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 36b4369d9e144821b93d10849fb769684418b40ecd15ae2a5cbdd28e11b92a46
x86_64
coreutils-8.4-13.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 79f0f330690b7a568b6947ec5a6f24fbbfd4d44598a5ea6a637a609359ef32d8
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-13.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 95d0bb3efd2f6f41c610f98b4bff15c2e8c7e97debea768ad54b55fa412c9f63
coreutils-libs-8.4-13.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ee8f5d00dcf162d23074926c3002d20a0e481a7572e628cf808f89966cbb0829
i386
coreutils-8.4-13.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 91483665c98727909a06ce222a8855844ba40ab2c2f4f089cd242a347454bb4d
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-13.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 8be7460f0a2eca9710c37bbc234f56c6d702d3cfeb8f8decec19bf941edd5c37
coreutils-libs-8.4-13.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 40a3ebe9e1b3128e4b2617379d1d1dec67cd76a701f5cdba7a2dc74ecbf474f2

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
coreutils-8.4-13.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 36b4369d9e144821b93d10849fb769684418b40ecd15ae2a5cbdd28e11b92a46
x86_64
coreutils-8.4-13.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 79f0f330690b7a568b6947ec5a6f24fbbfd4d44598a5ea6a637a609359ef32d8
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-13.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 95d0bb3efd2f6f41c610f98b4bff15c2e8c7e97debea768ad54b55fa412c9f63
coreutils-libs-8.4-13.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ee8f5d00dcf162d23074926c3002d20a0e481a7572e628cf808f89966cbb0829
i386
coreutils-8.4-13.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 91483665c98727909a06ce222a8855844ba40ab2c2f4f089cd242a347454bb4d
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-13.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 8be7460f0a2eca9710c37bbc234f56c6d702d3cfeb8f8decec19bf941edd5c37
coreutils-libs-8.4-13.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 40a3ebe9e1b3128e4b2617379d1d1dec67cd76a701f5cdba7a2dc74ecbf474f2

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
coreutils-8.4-13.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 36b4369d9e144821b93d10849fb769684418b40ecd15ae2a5cbdd28e11b92a46
x86_64
coreutils-8.4-13.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 79f0f330690b7a568b6947ec5a6f24fbbfd4d44598a5ea6a637a609359ef32d8
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-13.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 95d0bb3efd2f6f41c610f98b4bff15c2e8c7e97debea768ad54b55fa412c9f63
coreutils-libs-8.4-13.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ee8f5d00dcf162d23074926c3002d20a0e481a7572e628cf808f89966cbb0829
i386
coreutils-8.4-13.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 91483665c98727909a06ce222a8855844ba40ab2c2f4f089cd242a347454bb4d
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-13.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 8be7460f0a2eca9710c37bbc234f56c6d702d3cfeb8f8decec19bf941edd5c37
coreutils-libs-8.4-13.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 40a3ebe9e1b3128e4b2617379d1d1dec67cd76a701f5cdba7a2dc74ecbf474f2

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
coreutils-8.4-13.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 36b4369d9e144821b93d10849fb769684418b40ecd15ae2a5cbdd28e11b92a46
s390x
coreutils-8.4-13.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 3881e5112171977f5f18f549f2222f37e694d378f427c5a9c46e87e7eb3a994e
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-13.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 9ade6aa6ad94a4bfa8f2b95f99e357f362f8a2c40ce1ef194261a7b182832234
coreutils-libs-8.4-13.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: d7e85a3c15068ab35dd5c762767dfc3db4c40df30b69857cb7169be93ea864f9

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
coreutils-8.4-13.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 36b4369d9e144821b93d10849fb769684418b40ecd15ae2a5cbdd28e11b92a46
ppc64
coreutils-8.4-13.el6.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 1b73a3f0d6386b47c7d32439771c4ab303fc166b38f728e2b73170a0bfe6c4df
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-13.el6.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 5da2735a7f920dbe739c4e1dbe676d44439b173c8d450ad19b4236bb29eba79a
coreutils-libs-8.4-13.el6.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: c40072930592e9d1157c2e0b5a5fc677b33d917b3b4e54f0292ba85e8ca0d91e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
coreutils-8.4-13.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 36b4369d9e144821b93d10849fb769684418b40ecd15ae2a5cbdd28e11b92a46
x86_64
coreutils-8.4-13.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 79f0f330690b7a568b6947ec5a6f24fbbfd4d44598a5ea6a637a609359ef32d8
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-13.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 95d0bb3efd2f6f41c610f98b4bff15c2e8c7e97debea768ad54b55fa412c9f63
coreutils-libs-8.4-13.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ee8f5d00dcf162d23074926c3002d20a0e481a7572e628cf808f89966cbb0829

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6

SRPM
coreutils-8.4-13.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 36b4369d9e144821b93d10849fb769684418b40ecd15ae2a5cbdd28e11b92a46
x86_64
coreutils-8.4-13.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 79f0f330690b7a568b6947ec5a6f24fbbfd4d44598a5ea6a637a609359ef32d8
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-13.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 95d0bb3efd2f6f41c610f98b4bff15c2e8c7e97debea768ad54b55fa412c9f63
coreutils-libs-8.4-13.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ee8f5d00dcf162d23074926c3002d20a0e481a7572e628cf808f89966cbb0829
i386
coreutils-8.4-13.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 91483665c98727909a06ce222a8855844ba40ab2c2f4f089cd242a347454bb4d
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-13.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 8be7460f0a2eca9710c37bbc234f56c6d702d3cfeb8f8decec19bf941edd5c37
coreutils-libs-8.4-13.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 40a3ebe9e1b3128e4b2617379d1d1dec67cd76a701f5cdba7a2dc74ecbf474f2

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6

SRPM
coreutils-8.4-13.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 36b4369d9e144821b93d10849fb769684418b40ecd15ae2a5cbdd28e11b92a46
s390x
coreutils-8.4-13.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 3881e5112171977f5f18f549f2222f37e694d378f427c5a9c46e87e7eb3a994e
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-13.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 9ade6aa6ad94a4bfa8f2b95f99e357f362f8a2c40ce1ef194261a7b182832234
coreutils-libs-8.4-13.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: d7e85a3c15068ab35dd5c762767dfc3db4c40df30b69857cb7169be93ea864f9

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6

SRPM
coreutils-8.4-13.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 36b4369d9e144821b93d10849fb769684418b40ecd15ae2a5cbdd28e11b92a46
x86_64
coreutils-8.4-13.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 79f0f330690b7a568b6947ec5a6f24fbbfd4d44598a5ea6a637a609359ef32d8
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-13.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 95d0bb3efd2f6f41c610f98b4bff15c2e8c7e97debea768ad54b55fa412c9f63
coreutils-libs-8.4-13.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ee8f5d00dcf162d23074926c3002d20a0e481a7572e628cf808f89966cbb0829
i386
coreutils-8.4-13.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 91483665c98727909a06ce222a8855844ba40ab2c2f4f089cd242a347454bb4d
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-13.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 8be7460f0a2eca9710c37bbc234f56c6d702d3cfeb8f8decec19bf941edd5c37
coreutils-libs-8.4-13.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 40a3ebe9e1b3128e4b2617379d1d1dec67cd76a701f5cdba7a2dc74ecbf474f2

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6

SRPM
coreutils-8.4-13.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 36b4369d9e144821b93d10849fb769684418b40ecd15ae2a5cbdd28e11b92a46
s390x
coreutils-8.4-13.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 3881e5112171977f5f18f549f2222f37e694d378f427c5a9c46e87e7eb3a994e
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-13.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 9ade6aa6ad94a4bfa8f2b95f99e357f362f8a2c40ce1ef194261a7b182832234
coreutils-libs-8.4-13.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: d7e85a3c15068ab35dd5c762767dfc3db4c40df30b69857cb7169be93ea864f9

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