Synopsis

coreutils bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated coreutils packages that fix several bugs and add two enhancements are
now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The coreutils packages contain the core GNU utilities. These packages combine
the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• The "pr -c [filename]" and "pr -v [filename]" commands, which serve to show
  control and non-printing characters, cause the pr utility to terminate with a
  segmentation fault in multibyte locales. With this update, the underlying code
  has been modified and the pr utility now works as expected. (BZ#772172)
  
• The "-Z" option of the ls command did not explain sufficiently that only the
  last format option is taken into consideration and the user did not understand
  why the "ls -Zl" and "ls -lZ" command returned a different output. With this
  update, the ls info documentation has been improved. (BZ#771843)
  
• The "tail --follow" command uses the inotify API to follow the changes in a
  file. However, inotify does not work on remote file systems and the tail utility
  should fall back to polling for files on such file systems. The remote file
  systems GPFS and FhGFS were missing from the remote file system list and
  therefore "tail --follow" did not display the updates to the file on these file
  systems. These file systems have been added to the remote file system list and
  the problem no longer occurs. (BZ#769874)
  
• If SELinux was enabled, the "ls -l" command leaked one string for each
  non-empty directory name specified on the command line. With this update, such
  strings are freed from the memory and the problem no longer occurs. (BZ#751974)
  
• The su utility could remain unresponsive if it ran a process that ignored the
  SIG_CHLD signal. This happened because the su utility uses the waitpid()
  function to wait for a child process. The loop mechanism with the waitpid()
  function waited for the process to be in the stopped status. However, a process
  masking the SIG_CHLD signal will never be in that status. With this update, the
  loop mechanism was improved to handle this situation correctly and the problem
  no longer occurs. (BZ#754057)
  
• In a non-interactive tcsh shell, the colorls.csh script returned the following
  error:
  

tput: No value for $TERM and no -T specified

This happened because the tcsh shell did not short-circuit the evaluation of the
logical AND in a colorls.csh expression. With this update, checking for an
interactive shell has been modified and the script no longer returns the error
message. (BZ#804604)

This update also adds the following enhancements:

• In the default listing, the df utility showed long file system names including
  UUID. Consequently, the columns following the file system names were pushed to
  the right and made the df output hard to read. As long UUID system names are
  becoming more common, df now prints the referent when a long name refers to a
  symlink, and no file systems are specified. (BZ#766461)
  
• The user could not use octal digit mode when cleaning special set-user-id and
  set-group-id bits on a directory with the chmod tool. This is an upstream
  change, however as it was possible in all the previous Red Hat Enterprise Linux
  releases, it is necessary to provide backwards compatibility. Therefore, the
  chmod tool now again allows the user to clear the special bits on the
  directories using octal digit mode if the octal digit mode is at least 5 digits
  long. (BZ#691466)
  

All users of coreutils are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

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/knowledge/articles/11258

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 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

Fixes

• BZ - 691466 - [RFE] Enable octal-digit mode for removal of UID/GID/sticky bits
• BZ - 751974 - ls -l / memory leaks
• BZ - 769874 - tail: fix --follow on FhGFS remote file systems
• BZ - 771843 - Better document ls behaviour for formatting options('ls -Zl' and 'ls -lZ' show different results)
• BZ - 772172 - pr command failed on multibyte test
• BZ - 804604 - Error in /etc/profile.d/colorls.csh

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
coreutils-8.4-19.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: f9a462d8e0633eed5eee30237f1a0cb41a084265c9954285db92d149809c8875
x86_64
coreutils-8.4-19.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 0244c55dde04f8197fb44f3491dad82fa5007e1d1cf328e0547a4d3d8939b914
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-19.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: ad20299c00c2cf69a8e33a94d9d347db6412e50263f1006daad6541d1a89e318
coreutils-libs-8.4-19.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 4be0be04d781a0d3176dc3c94dce226f632a3809a126ef0e32c2dc64e6748cec
i386
coreutils-8.4-19.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 8d3f44ed0890f017c97e76dbc910cd566b76c9533ae07d0d17f87c1d49fc0a52
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-19.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 20d1892b6aaed33e979d04da35d4113281962683dd2d7b23c7b6ffa08e4033ae
coreutils-libs-8.4-19.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 39589833d3db4c72d8b7dd7522c34af46782fbd6ac71ffd2f61078cdc596dc23

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
coreutils-8.4-19.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: f9a462d8e0633eed5eee30237f1a0cb41a084265c9954285db92d149809c8875
x86_64
coreutils-8.4-19.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 0244c55dde04f8197fb44f3491dad82fa5007e1d1cf328e0547a4d3d8939b914
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-19.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: ad20299c00c2cf69a8e33a94d9d347db6412e50263f1006daad6541d1a89e318
coreutils-libs-8.4-19.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 4be0be04d781a0d3176dc3c94dce226f632a3809a126ef0e32c2dc64e6748cec
i386
coreutils-8.4-19.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 8d3f44ed0890f017c97e76dbc910cd566b76c9533ae07d0d17f87c1d49fc0a52
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-19.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 20d1892b6aaed33e979d04da35d4113281962683dd2d7b23c7b6ffa08e4033ae
coreutils-libs-8.4-19.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 39589833d3db4c72d8b7dd7522c34af46782fbd6ac71ffd2f61078cdc596dc23

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
coreutils-8.4-19.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: f9a462d8e0633eed5eee30237f1a0cb41a084265c9954285db92d149809c8875
x86_64
coreutils-8.4-19.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 0244c55dde04f8197fb44f3491dad82fa5007e1d1cf328e0547a4d3d8939b914
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-19.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: ad20299c00c2cf69a8e33a94d9d347db6412e50263f1006daad6541d1a89e318
coreutils-libs-8.4-19.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 4be0be04d781a0d3176dc3c94dce226f632a3809a126ef0e32c2dc64e6748cec
i386
coreutils-8.4-19.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 8d3f44ed0890f017c97e76dbc910cd566b76c9533ae07d0d17f87c1d49fc0a52
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-19.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 20d1892b6aaed33e979d04da35d4113281962683dd2d7b23c7b6ffa08e4033ae
coreutils-libs-8.4-19.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 39589833d3db4c72d8b7dd7522c34af46782fbd6ac71ffd2f61078cdc596dc23

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
coreutils-8.4-19.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: f9a462d8e0633eed5eee30237f1a0cb41a084265c9954285db92d149809c8875
s390x
coreutils-8.4-19.el6.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: 055195e1d0f7422e42d5f49f8f06b96e916cb41b46a764f6cbd4619c1cb3680a
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-19.el6.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: d595f500546610503330eae82a3f65c9f5167e239fe2266d26d349faa75ec299
coreutils-libs-8.4-19.el6.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: 5a57ab8161edb35da9125e442a7df1377740b7e5ebb70a95951740f81369bd9e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
coreutils-8.4-19.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: f9a462d8e0633eed5eee30237f1a0cb41a084265c9954285db92d149809c8875
ppc64
coreutils-8.4-19.el6.ppc64.rpm	SHA-256: f8c30ce0d92d2d2b1d211db96687a1d0ec155999c05ddb649b973e44affa6b83
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-19.el6.ppc64.rpm	SHA-256: 3c19a9ad09c3e157e5734f9450a7268aa365287ee46414d49709109847f3cad2
coreutils-libs-8.4-19.el6.ppc64.rpm	SHA-256: 8cbfad7fdf9ecec0f7747be403ac086efedd5ea8075e9801c85e00acd3c297b4

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
coreutils-8.4-19.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: f9a462d8e0633eed5eee30237f1a0cb41a084265c9954285db92d149809c8875
x86_64
coreutils-8.4-19.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 0244c55dde04f8197fb44f3491dad82fa5007e1d1cf328e0547a4d3d8939b914
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-19.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: ad20299c00c2cf69a8e33a94d9d347db6412e50263f1006daad6541d1a89e318
coreutils-libs-8.4-19.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 4be0be04d781a0d3176dc3c94dce226f632a3809a126ef0e32c2dc64e6748cec

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6

SRPM
coreutils-8.4-19.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: f9a462d8e0633eed5eee30237f1a0cb41a084265c9954285db92d149809c8875
x86_64
coreutils-8.4-19.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 0244c55dde04f8197fb44f3491dad82fa5007e1d1cf328e0547a4d3d8939b914
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-19.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: ad20299c00c2cf69a8e33a94d9d347db6412e50263f1006daad6541d1a89e318
coreutils-libs-8.4-19.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 4be0be04d781a0d3176dc3c94dce226f632a3809a126ef0e32c2dc64e6748cec
i386
coreutils-8.4-19.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 8d3f44ed0890f017c97e76dbc910cd566b76c9533ae07d0d17f87c1d49fc0a52
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-19.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 20d1892b6aaed33e979d04da35d4113281962683dd2d7b23c7b6ffa08e4033ae
coreutils-libs-8.4-19.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 39589833d3db4c72d8b7dd7522c34af46782fbd6ac71ffd2f61078cdc596dc23