RHBA-2011:0675 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated parted package that fixes two bugs and adds one enhancement is now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The GNU Parted program allows you to create, destroy, resize, move, and copy
hard disk partitions. Parted can be used for creating space for new operating
systems, reorganizing disk usage, and copying data to new hard disks.

This updated package fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, when a user ran the parted program on the IBM System z platform,

the character buffer for the fdasd_check_api_version() function was too short,
causing a buffer overflow. This has been fixed by doubling the buffer. The
buffer overflow does not occur anymore. (BZ#693852)

• Although the parted program's help information, accessed by running "parted
• -help", contained a usage example and a description for the "align-check"

command, this information was missing from the corresponding manual page. This
update corrects the parted(8) manual page to include a description of the
"align-check" command. (BZ#642476)

Additionally, this update adds the following enhancement:

• In order to help tools such as Anaconda support 4KB sector drives, the

libparted-provided ped_device_get_optimum_alignment function now prefers to
align partitions to 1MB whenever possible. This change has negligible effect on
the parted command line tool. (BZ#618255)

All users of parted are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes
these bugs and adds 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 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• 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 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 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 - 642476 - The parted's man-page doesn't describe a new option "align-check TYPE N".
• BZ - 693852 - fortify_source found a buffer overflow in fdasd_check_api_version

CVEs

(none)

References

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