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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2011:0921 - Bug Fix Advisory
Issued:
2011-07-06
Updated:
2011-12-06

RHBA-2011:0921 - Bug Fix Advisory

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  • Updated Packages

Synopsis

jwhois 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 jwhois package that fixes one bug and adds one enhancement is now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The jwhois package provides a whois client, which is used to obtain information
about domain names and IP addresses from whois servers.

This update fixes the following bug:

  • Previously, when querying a domain with the name length near the allowed limit

of 63 characters, and emitting command options to a whois server, the "whois"
command failed because both the domain name and command options were given to a
function responsible for translating Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) to
ASCII. The length of such command was greater than the allowed limit. This
update fixes this bug so that only the domain name is now translated after
executing the command. (BZ#682832)

As well, this update adds the following enhancement:

  • Previously, jwhois did not contain the whois server details for the dotEmarat

extension. As a result, whois queries for these extensions were incorrectly
directed to whois.internic.net. With this update, the configuration file
correctly directs queries for the dotEmarat domains to whois.aeda.net.ae.
(BZ#664449)

All users of whois clients are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
fixes this bug and adds this enhancement.

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 - 664449 - dotEmarat support in jwhois.conf
  • BZ - 682832 - [IDN encoding failed with error code 5

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
jwhois-4.0-19.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 90307a57385e2ec3f6231849ce808fbdc0a5e807a683867402a7795530ed441e
x86_64
jwhois-4.0-19.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 9c798ee4e8162611bf7649c5c343a18911dcab0addefc3ac7c889f38c1eea996
jwhois-4.0-19.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 9c798ee4e8162611bf7649c5c343a18911dcab0addefc3ac7c889f38c1eea996
jwhois-debuginfo-4.0-19.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 75c3712a883486f7ae89e947a8b271b16c42759e0c621aecda2d2a5c23b603b9
jwhois-debuginfo-4.0-19.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 75c3712a883486f7ae89e947a8b271b16c42759e0c621aecda2d2a5c23b603b9
i386
jwhois-4.0-19.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 3180f53f427e3340ffca8a47bbee438850c4dfd2b9a2d305af167d262957aa4f
jwhois-debuginfo-4.0-19.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 17f08c28303a05862564337167ec311b18c7dded9c85caf38a0dbc55b2f81f8e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6

SRPM
jwhois-4.0-19.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 90307a57385e2ec3f6231849ce808fbdc0a5e807a683867402a7795530ed441e
x86_64
jwhois-4.0-19.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 9c798ee4e8162611bf7649c5c343a18911dcab0addefc3ac7c889f38c1eea996
jwhois-debuginfo-4.0-19.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 75c3712a883486f7ae89e947a8b271b16c42759e0c621aecda2d2a5c23b603b9
i386
jwhois-4.0-19.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 3180f53f427e3340ffca8a47bbee438850c4dfd2b9a2d305af167d262957aa4f
jwhois-debuginfo-4.0-19.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 17f08c28303a05862564337167ec311b18c7dded9c85caf38a0dbc55b2f81f8e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
jwhois-4.0-19.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 90307a57385e2ec3f6231849ce808fbdc0a5e807a683867402a7795530ed441e
x86_64
jwhois-4.0-19.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 9c798ee4e8162611bf7649c5c343a18911dcab0addefc3ac7c889f38c1eea996
jwhois-debuginfo-4.0-19.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 75c3712a883486f7ae89e947a8b271b16c42759e0c621aecda2d2a5c23b603b9
i386
jwhois-4.0-19.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 3180f53f427e3340ffca8a47bbee438850c4dfd2b9a2d305af167d262957aa4f
jwhois-debuginfo-4.0-19.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 17f08c28303a05862564337167ec311b18c7dded9c85caf38a0dbc55b2f81f8e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
jwhois-4.0-19.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 90307a57385e2ec3f6231849ce808fbdc0a5e807a683867402a7795530ed441e
x86_64
jwhois-4.0-19.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 9c798ee4e8162611bf7649c5c343a18911dcab0addefc3ac7c889f38c1eea996
jwhois-debuginfo-4.0-19.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 75c3712a883486f7ae89e947a8b271b16c42759e0c621aecda2d2a5c23b603b9
i386
jwhois-4.0-19.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 3180f53f427e3340ffca8a47bbee438850c4dfd2b9a2d305af167d262957aa4f
jwhois-debuginfo-4.0-19.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 17f08c28303a05862564337167ec311b18c7dded9c85caf38a0dbc55b2f81f8e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
jwhois-4.0-19.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 90307a57385e2ec3f6231849ce808fbdc0a5e807a683867402a7795530ed441e
s390x
jwhois-4.0-19.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 88e9424619725557866188718c745f81fbc5ddbe6a867f0534aea74d1435d8c1
jwhois-debuginfo-4.0-19.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: d14a3dd521e8c6c3fae8ee324217a7912eb4ea71240e1c96667038dd3b48a3d3

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
jwhois-4.0-19.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 90307a57385e2ec3f6231849ce808fbdc0a5e807a683867402a7795530ed441e
ppc64
jwhois-4.0-19.el6.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 68ba7a53c33e10ecb045a33e94f805f086a61704116173d08a9e2685c48e2522
jwhois-debuginfo-4.0-19.el6.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: e8e541cc8a3474d4d8b2c1b1c0d10ce1a729cf6e6b8c1c9c29b702d78d3a763d

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
jwhois-4.0-19.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 90307a57385e2ec3f6231849ce808fbdc0a5e807a683867402a7795530ed441e
x86_64
jwhois-4.0-19.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 9c798ee4e8162611bf7649c5c343a18911dcab0addefc3ac7c889f38c1eea996
jwhois-debuginfo-4.0-19.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 75c3712a883486f7ae89e947a8b271b16c42759e0c621aecda2d2a5c23b603b9

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6

SRPM
jwhois-4.0-19.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 90307a57385e2ec3f6231849ce808fbdc0a5e807a683867402a7795530ed441e
x86_64
jwhois-4.0-19.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 9c798ee4e8162611bf7649c5c343a18911dcab0addefc3ac7c889f38c1eea996
jwhois-debuginfo-4.0-19.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 75c3712a883486f7ae89e947a8b271b16c42759e0c621aecda2d2a5c23b603b9
i386
jwhois-4.0-19.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 3180f53f427e3340ffca8a47bbee438850c4dfd2b9a2d305af167d262957aa4f
jwhois-debuginfo-4.0-19.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 17f08c28303a05862564337167ec311b18c7dded9c85caf38a0dbc55b2f81f8e

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

SRPM
jwhois-4.0-19.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 90307a57385e2ec3f6231849ce808fbdc0a5e807a683867402a7795530ed441e
s390x
jwhois-4.0-19.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 88e9424619725557866188718c745f81fbc5ddbe6a867f0534aea74d1435d8c1
jwhois-debuginfo-4.0-19.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: d14a3dd521e8c6c3fae8ee324217a7912eb4ea71240e1c96667038dd3b48a3d3

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

SRPM
jwhois-4.0-19.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 90307a57385e2ec3f6231849ce808fbdc0a5e807a683867402a7795530ed441e
x86_64
jwhois-4.0-19.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 9c798ee4e8162611bf7649c5c343a18911dcab0addefc3ac7c889f38c1eea996
jwhois-debuginfo-4.0-19.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 75c3712a883486f7ae89e947a8b271b16c42759e0c621aecda2d2a5c23b603b9
i386
jwhois-4.0-19.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 3180f53f427e3340ffca8a47bbee438850c4dfd2b9a2d305af167d262957aa4f
jwhois-debuginfo-4.0-19.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 17f08c28303a05862564337167ec311b18c7dded9c85caf38a0dbc55b2f81f8e

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

SRPM
jwhois-4.0-19.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 90307a57385e2ec3f6231849ce808fbdc0a5e807a683867402a7795530ed441e
s390x
jwhois-4.0-19.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 88e9424619725557866188718c745f81fbc5ddbe6a867f0534aea74d1435d8c1
jwhois-debuginfo-4.0-19.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: d14a3dd521e8c6c3fae8ee324217a7912eb4ea71240e1c96667038dd3b48a3d3

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