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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2011:0679 - Bug Fix Advisory
Issued:
2011-05-19
Updated:
2011-05-19

RHBA-2011:0679 - Bug Fix Advisory

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Synopsis

man-pages bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

An updated man-pages package that corrects several documentation errors and
omissions and adds several improved man pages is now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The man-pages package provides man (manual) pages from the Linux
Documentation Project (LDP).

This updated man-pages package addresses the following issues:

  • The sd man page had an invalid link referring to the scsi man page. With

this update, all references to the scsi man page were removed from the sd
man page. (BZ#634626)

  • The "getent --help" command output mentioned a "-s" switch which was not

explained anywhere in the getent man page. Since the getent man page is
outdated, the entire page was removed for this update. (BZ#669768)

  • The man page for clock_gettime had references to the CLOCK_REALTIME_HR

and CLOCK_MONOTONIC_HR constants, that were used in clock_getres.2,
clock_gettime.2, clock_nanosleep.2, clock_settime.2, and timer_create.2.
These constants are no longer present in the Linux kernel and clock_gettime
was corrected to remove all references to these constants. (BZ#678376)

  • A typographical error in the SHA, MD5, and DES algorithms on crypt(3) man

page, meant key significance in passwords was presented incorrectly. The
typo was fixed for this update. (BZ#679530)

  • Information about a new keyword -- scopev4 -- was missing from the

"gai.conf" man page. As of this update, "gai.conf(5)" now documents the
scopev4 keyword. (BZ#679894)

  • The example code demonstrating how to use the getifaddrs() API in the

getifaddrs man page contained a bug capable of crashing getifaddrs if used.
The previous example code did not check for a NULL pointer under certain
conditions which would cause a segmentation fault. With this update the
example code tests for this condition, as expected, thereby avoiding the
segfault. (BZ#683039)

This update also adds the following enhancements:

  • The man pages for "pwrite(v)" and "pread(v)" were previously not included

in the man page package. With this update, they are. (BZ#528546)

  • The "get_mempolicy" man page was updated to be more contemporaneous with

the version of the Linux kernel (version 2.6.32) used by Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6.(BZ#613777)

  • The "pthread_attr_setguardsize" man page was updated to include

information about glibc 2.8 changes. (BZ#634986)

All users of manual pages are advised to 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
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 x86_64
  • 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 (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 - 613777 - RHEL6b2: old, stale get_mempolicy(2) man page
  • BZ - 634626 - scsi(4) man page missing
  • BZ - 634986 - [RHEL6:THREADS] pthread_attr_setguardsize guard page in the wrong place
  • BZ - 669768 - man page for getent does not match 'getent --help' output
  • BZ - 678376 - clock_gettime man page error for CLOCK_REALTIME_HR
  • BZ - 679530 - crypt(3) incorrect key length
  • BZ - 679894 - add scopev4 to gai.conf man page
  • BZ - 683039 - Example code in getifaddrs(3) man page can crash

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
man-pages-3.22-17.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 87b1e9681c292dec44f700a7bf295e833d1d33f698b9daa0edaa21f0cc3ac2f1
x86_64
man-pages-3.22-17.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e62b784a8ad7b8aac4bbf1063df7aa6c00cf18f9b52ca65cdfe86c6128258644
man-pages-3.22-17.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e62b784a8ad7b8aac4bbf1063df7aa6c00cf18f9b52ca65cdfe86c6128258644
i386
man-pages-3.22-17.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e62b784a8ad7b8aac4bbf1063df7aa6c00cf18f9b52ca65cdfe86c6128258644

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6

SRPM
man-pages-3.22-17.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 87b1e9681c292dec44f700a7bf295e833d1d33f698b9daa0edaa21f0cc3ac2f1
x86_64
man-pages-3.22-17.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e62b784a8ad7b8aac4bbf1063df7aa6c00cf18f9b52ca65cdfe86c6128258644
i386
man-pages-3.22-17.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e62b784a8ad7b8aac4bbf1063df7aa6c00cf18f9b52ca65cdfe86c6128258644

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
man-pages-3.22-17.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 87b1e9681c292dec44f700a7bf295e833d1d33f698b9daa0edaa21f0cc3ac2f1
x86_64
man-pages-3.22-17.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e62b784a8ad7b8aac4bbf1063df7aa6c00cf18f9b52ca65cdfe86c6128258644
i386
man-pages-3.22-17.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e62b784a8ad7b8aac4bbf1063df7aa6c00cf18f9b52ca65cdfe86c6128258644

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
man-pages-3.22-17.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 87b1e9681c292dec44f700a7bf295e833d1d33f698b9daa0edaa21f0cc3ac2f1
x86_64
man-pages-3.22-17.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e62b784a8ad7b8aac4bbf1063df7aa6c00cf18f9b52ca65cdfe86c6128258644
i386
man-pages-3.22-17.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e62b784a8ad7b8aac4bbf1063df7aa6c00cf18f9b52ca65cdfe86c6128258644

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
man-pages-3.22-17.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 87b1e9681c292dec44f700a7bf295e833d1d33f698b9daa0edaa21f0cc3ac2f1
s390x
man-pages-3.22-17.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e62b784a8ad7b8aac4bbf1063df7aa6c00cf18f9b52ca65cdfe86c6128258644

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
man-pages-3.22-17.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 87b1e9681c292dec44f700a7bf295e833d1d33f698b9daa0edaa21f0cc3ac2f1
ppc64
man-pages-3.22-17.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e62b784a8ad7b8aac4bbf1063df7aa6c00cf18f9b52ca65cdfe86c6128258644

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
man-pages-3.22-17.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 87b1e9681c292dec44f700a7bf295e833d1d33f698b9daa0edaa21f0cc3ac2f1
x86_64
man-pages-3.22-17.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e62b784a8ad7b8aac4bbf1063df7aa6c00cf18f9b52ca65cdfe86c6128258644

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6

SRPM
man-pages-3.22-17.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 87b1e9681c292dec44f700a7bf295e833d1d33f698b9daa0edaa21f0cc3ac2f1
x86_64
man-pages-3.22-17.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e62b784a8ad7b8aac4bbf1063df7aa6c00cf18f9b52ca65cdfe86c6128258644
i386
man-pages-3.22-17.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e62b784a8ad7b8aac4bbf1063df7aa6c00cf18f9b52ca65cdfe86c6128258644

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

SRPM
man-pages-3.22-17.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 87b1e9681c292dec44f700a7bf295e833d1d33f698b9daa0edaa21f0cc3ac2f1
s390x
man-pages-3.22-17.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e62b784a8ad7b8aac4bbf1063df7aa6c00cf18f9b52ca65cdfe86c6128258644

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

SRPM
man-pages-3.22-17.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 87b1e9681c292dec44f700a7bf295e833d1d33f698b9daa0edaa21f0cc3ac2f1
x86_64
man-pages-3.22-17.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e62b784a8ad7b8aac4bbf1063df7aa6c00cf18f9b52ca65cdfe86c6128258644
i386
man-pages-3.22-17.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e62b784a8ad7b8aac4bbf1063df7aa6c00cf18f9b52ca65cdfe86c6128258644

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

SRPM
man-pages-3.22-17.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 87b1e9681c292dec44f700a7bf295e833d1d33f698b9daa0edaa21f0cc3ac2f1
s390x
man-pages-3.22-17.el6.noarch.rpm SHA-256: e62b784a8ad7b8aac4bbf1063df7aa6c00cf18f9b52ca65cdfe86c6128258644

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