RHBA-2011:1074 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated coreutils package that fixes several bugs and adds various
enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

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 coreutils packages include a number of bug fixes and enhancements.
Space precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory. Refer to the
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7 Technical Notes for information about these
changes:

https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/5.7_Technical_Notes/coreutils.html#RHBA-2011-1074

All users of coreutils are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
provide numerous bug fixes and enhancements.

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 - 510809 - readlink cannot handle recursive symlinks
• BZ - 513153 - mv acl preservation can be very noisy ....
• BZ - 515499 - Incorrect output of ls -1U with more than one argument
• BZ - 520630 - df -l <device> as regular user cause "Permission denied"
• BZ - 523923 - removing many files takes a long time
• BZ - 524805 - The manual page for runuser is incorrect
• BZ - 525199 - cp/mv: Preserving extended attributes doesn't work for read only files
• BZ - 537463 - du using a ghosted automounted directory results in 'No such file or directory'
• BZ - 584802 - groups are not correctly updated when /etc/group /etc/gshadow are modified
• BZ - 586957 - LS_COLORS setup in /etc/profile.d has insufficient escaping
• BZ - 610559 - mkdir info page update
• BZ - 627285 - mv --backup does not work for directories
• BZ - 628953 - runcon chokes on arguments belonging to passed parameters
• BZ - 658839 - mv: confusing 'subdirectory of itself' error message
• BZ - 660186 - Missing info manual for chcon and runcon
• BZ - 664895 - rmdir --ignore-fail-on-non-empty fails on vxfs filesytem
• BZ - 668247 - dd reads random sizes of data
• BZ - 681598 - shell suspend won't work
• BZ - 684249 - [RHEL5] segfault with LC_TIME different from other multibyte locales

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/5/html/5.7_Technical_Notes/coreutils.html#RHBA-2011-1074