Synopsis

zsh bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated zsh packages that fix three bugs are now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The zsh shell is a command interpreter which can be used as an interactive login
shell and as a shell script command processor. Zsh resembles the ksh shell (the
Korn shell), but includes many enhancements. Zsh supports command line editing,
built-in spelling correction, programmable command completion, shell functions
(with autoloading), a history mechanism, and more.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Prior to this update, the compdef utility prevented more than three commands
  from using one completion service. As a consequence, compdef failed with the
  error message "unknown command or service: mount". This update corrects the
  underlying source code so that now more than 3 commands can use one completion
  service. (BZ#700722)
  
• Prior to this update, zsh could, under certain circumstances, keep the Process
  ID (PID) of terminated or suspended processes in the jobs list. As a
  consequence, zsh waited infinitely for already terminated or suspended
  processes. This update no longer returns the terminated PID and zsh now runs as
  expected. (BZ#706029)
  
• Prior to this update, zsh could be interrupted when running the fork() option
  if the malloc arena was still locked. As a consequence, zsh could become
  indefinitely suspended when the malloc() function got called. With this update,
  signals are queued before the fork to avoid interruptions. (BZ#733582)
  

All users of the zsh shell are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which fix these bugs.

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 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

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5

SRPM
zsh-4.2.6-6.el5.src.rpm	SHA-256: 1f08e01eb3a518c0b60b50a5e3b6f6479f7af05a9aba25f9c5f77ddf60af0030
x86_64
zsh-4.2.6-6.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: a220133ae542b1e9c8914b3e91ff52d28971c83ef66437b7949fbb050fc0b05d
zsh-html-4.2.6-6.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 72c4e3736015b1ff770e0f5332870047f15df8c68bf6a122e81f926d78f820a3
ia64
zsh-4.2.6-6.el5.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: 9ec1df1d0a64de6769c14c793b2ee9bbe8ecf434fea8754bcaf1f9f4a35034d3
zsh-html-4.2.6-6.el5.ia64.rpm	SHA-256: 1f65fa66a67275895f82622027a09db115af65b572ee83c1393b294ca8107866
i386
zsh-4.2.6-6.el5.i386.rpm	SHA-256: c4be687564c0cbc370acd247a6d7821889f7f38f72be56d39bf1ddfd2f4cf393
zsh-html-4.2.6-6.el5.i386.rpm	SHA-256: ef7c73c200a1aa4a7f72bea3d6086f85308934f3d8f8d731c82d64bb6a959d8a

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5

SRPM
zsh-4.2.6-6.el5.src.rpm	SHA-256: 1f08e01eb3a518c0b60b50a5e3b6f6479f7af05a9aba25f9c5f77ddf60af0030
x86_64
zsh-4.2.6-6.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: a220133ae542b1e9c8914b3e91ff52d28971c83ef66437b7949fbb050fc0b05d
zsh-html-4.2.6-6.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 72c4e3736015b1ff770e0f5332870047f15df8c68bf6a122e81f926d78f820a3
i386
zsh-4.2.6-6.el5.i386.rpm	SHA-256: c4be687564c0cbc370acd247a6d7821889f7f38f72be56d39bf1ddfd2f4cf393
zsh-html-4.2.6-6.el5.i386.rpm	SHA-256: ef7c73c200a1aa4a7f72bea3d6086f85308934f3d8f8d731c82d64bb6a959d8a

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5

SRPM
zsh-4.2.6-6.el5.src.rpm	SHA-256: 1f08e01eb3a518c0b60b50a5e3b6f6479f7af05a9aba25f9c5f77ddf60af0030
x86_64
zsh-4.2.6-6.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: a220133ae542b1e9c8914b3e91ff52d28971c83ef66437b7949fbb050fc0b05d
zsh-html-4.2.6-6.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 72c4e3736015b1ff770e0f5332870047f15df8c68bf6a122e81f926d78f820a3
i386
zsh-4.2.6-6.el5.i386.rpm	SHA-256: c4be687564c0cbc370acd247a6d7821889f7f38f72be56d39bf1ddfd2f4cf393
zsh-html-4.2.6-6.el5.i386.rpm	SHA-256: ef7c73c200a1aa4a7f72bea3d6086f85308934f3d8f8d731c82d64bb6a959d8a

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5

SRPM
zsh-4.2.6-6.el5.src.rpm	SHA-256: 1f08e01eb3a518c0b60b50a5e3b6f6479f7af05a9aba25f9c5f77ddf60af0030
s390x
zsh-4.2.6-6.el5.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: 6ddd3e17ba94d0e3f49009fa662825afa9925e6d2f8c05745e89a1970a5703da
zsh-html-4.2.6-6.el5.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: c52afdc11597af885d781bd26a7730dff17be89aa1a45bdf72cafd15ad357b1a

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5

SRPM
zsh-4.2.6-6.el5.src.rpm	SHA-256: 1f08e01eb3a518c0b60b50a5e3b6f6479f7af05a9aba25f9c5f77ddf60af0030
ppc
zsh-4.2.6-6.el5.ppc.rpm	SHA-256: 2ded5b1ee327b3607f49a935d8667b01af5300cc95e4371f71a18e7e2a87eb38
zsh-html-4.2.6-6.el5.ppc.rpm	SHA-256: 26cccd0bd80d46c2b7c777bfa4a0d1e51b459d65eea54ec53a6e40057f0a8838

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5

SRPM
zsh-4.2.6-6.el5.src.rpm	SHA-256: 1f08e01eb3a518c0b60b50a5e3b6f6479f7af05a9aba25f9c5f77ddf60af0030
x86_64
zsh-4.2.6-6.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: a220133ae542b1e9c8914b3e91ff52d28971c83ef66437b7949fbb050fc0b05d
zsh-html-4.2.6-6.el5.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 72c4e3736015b1ff770e0f5332870047f15df8c68bf6a122e81f926d78f820a3
i386
zsh-4.2.6-6.el5.i386.rpm	SHA-256: c4be687564c0cbc370acd247a6d7821889f7f38f72be56d39bf1ddfd2f4cf393
zsh-html-4.2.6-6.el5.i386.rpm	SHA-256: ef7c73c200a1aa4a7f72bea3d6086f85308934f3d8f8d731c82d64bb6a959d8a