Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2012:1146 - Bug Fix Advisory
Issued:
2012-08-07
Updated:
2013-02-20

RHBA-2012:1146 - Bug Fix Advisory

Synopsis

gawk bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

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Topic

Updated gawk packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6.

Description

The gawk packages provide the GNU version of the text processing utility awk.
Awk interprets a special-purpose programming language to do quick and easy text
pattern matching and reformatting jobs.

This update fixes the following bug:

  • Prior to this update, the "re_string_skip_chars" function incorrectly used the

character count instead of the raw length to estimate the string length. As a
consequence, any text in multi-byte encoding that did not use the UTF-8 format
failed to be processed correctly. This update modifies the underlying code so
that the correct string length is used. multi-byte encoding is processed
correctly. (BZ#829558)

All users of gawk requiring multi-byte encodings that do not use UTF-8 are
advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

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 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

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 54fadbebbb46edab49a82c9abb4a904a6772aa1d4869cc578228cbdba8a38ca5
x86_64
gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: aab9baf411099162f25eda71a15fe3d916d08a0f6e087419bd32500c66c26feb
gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: aab9baf411099162f25eda71a15fe3d916d08a0f6e087419bd32500c66c26feb
gawk-debuginfo-3.1.7-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: cd1196497d6577a532d1cb05efecb0b8d39a5a43f3492b1ad016bdad89316863
gawk-debuginfo-3.1.7-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: cd1196497d6577a532d1cb05efecb0b8d39a5a43f3492b1ad016bdad89316863
i386
gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 8f20037030b5643f73623291b828f2a157b199fc38f51387cd5ba8a665754861
gawk-debuginfo-3.1.7-10.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 94af2e69515e490bfe4b5bc559862e50e2dfd0e5d103fad48879a450516bf98b

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6

SRPM
gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 54fadbebbb46edab49a82c9abb4a904a6772aa1d4869cc578228cbdba8a38ca5
x86_64
gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: aab9baf411099162f25eda71a15fe3d916d08a0f6e087419bd32500c66c26feb
gawk-debuginfo-3.1.7-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: cd1196497d6577a532d1cb05efecb0b8d39a5a43f3492b1ad016bdad89316863
i386
gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 8f20037030b5643f73623291b828f2a157b199fc38f51387cd5ba8a665754861
gawk-debuginfo-3.1.7-10.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 94af2e69515e490bfe4b5bc559862e50e2dfd0e5d103fad48879a450516bf98b

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 54fadbebbb46edab49a82c9abb4a904a6772aa1d4869cc578228cbdba8a38ca5
x86_64
gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: aab9baf411099162f25eda71a15fe3d916d08a0f6e087419bd32500c66c26feb
gawk-debuginfo-3.1.7-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: cd1196497d6577a532d1cb05efecb0b8d39a5a43f3492b1ad016bdad89316863
i386
gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 8f20037030b5643f73623291b828f2a157b199fc38f51387cd5ba8a665754861
gawk-debuginfo-3.1.7-10.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 94af2e69515e490bfe4b5bc559862e50e2dfd0e5d103fad48879a450516bf98b

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 54fadbebbb46edab49a82c9abb4a904a6772aa1d4869cc578228cbdba8a38ca5
x86_64
gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: aab9baf411099162f25eda71a15fe3d916d08a0f6e087419bd32500c66c26feb
gawk-debuginfo-3.1.7-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: cd1196497d6577a532d1cb05efecb0b8d39a5a43f3492b1ad016bdad89316863
i386
gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 8f20037030b5643f73623291b828f2a157b199fc38f51387cd5ba8a665754861
gawk-debuginfo-3.1.7-10.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 94af2e69515e490bfe4b5bc559862e50e2dfd0e5d103fad48879a450516bf98b

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 54fadbebbb46edab49a82c9abb4a904a6772aa1d4869cc578228cbdba8a38ca5
s390x
gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 0f3d4036f91ac4ce46870db93d742db94b12dc59c274c4af9551cc8ffb344d8e
gawk-debuginfo-3.1.7-10.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 71d8d8f20774a00123f45bfda3471d6fb20a5b31507c35e5f1df7509c0753904

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 54fadbebbb46edab49a82c9abb4a904a6772aa1d4869cc578228cbdba8a38ca5
ppc64
gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 403326a792a891b84a84f988fa324c8ddf42c29c38ba0913c655f12ca5097260
gawk-debuginfo-3.1.7-10.el6.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 6918c2f135a49d40bfefb9e78f28e59e4345a5e8b9bc10ce2f83215f9d1dc869

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 54fadbebbb46edab49a82c9abb4a904a6772aa1d4869cc578228cbdba8a38ca5
x86_64
gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: aab9baf411099162f25eda71a15fe3d916d08a0f6e087419bd32500c66c26feb
gawk-debuginfo-3.1.7-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: cd1196497d6577a532d1cb05efecb0b8d39a5a43f3492b1ad016bdad89316863

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6

SRPM
gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 54fadbebbb46edab49a82c9abb4a904a6772aa1d4869cc578228cbdba8a38ca5
x86_64
gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: aab9baf411099162f25eda71a15fe3d916d08a0f6e087419bd32500c66c26feb
gawk-debuginfo-3.1.7-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: cd1196497d6577a532d1cb05efecb0b8d39a5a43f3492b1ad016bdad89316863
i386
gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 8f20037030b5643f73623291b828f2a157b199fc38f51387cd5ba8a665754861
gawk-debuginfo-3.1.7-10.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 94af2e69515e490bfe4b5bc559862e50e2dfd0e5d103fad48879a450516bf98b

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

SRPM
gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 54fadbebbb46edab49a82c9abb4a904a6772aa1d4869cc578228cbdba8a38ca5
s390x
gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 0f3d4036f91ac4ce46870db93d742db94b12dc59c274c4af9551cc8ffb344d8e
gawk-debuginfo-3.1.7-10.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 71d8d8f20774a00123f45bfda3471d6fb20a5b31507c35e5f1df7509c0753904

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

SRPM
gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 54fadbebbb46edab49a82c9abb4a904a6772aa1d4869cc578228cbdba8a38ca5
x86_64
gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: aab9baf411099162f25eda71a15fe3d916d08a0f6e087419bd32500c66c26feb
gawk-debuginfo-3.1.7-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: cd1196497d6577a532d1cb05efecb0b8d39a5a43f3492b1ad016bdad89316863
i386
gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 8f20037030b5643f73623291b828f2a157b199fc38f51387cd5ba8a665754861
gawk-debuginfo-3.1.7-10.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 94af2e69515e490bfe4b5bc559862e50e2dfd0e5d103fad48879a450516bf98b

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

SRPM
gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: 54fadbebbb46edab49a82c9abb4a904a6772aa1d4869cc578228cbdba8a38ca5
s390x
gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 0f3d4036f91ac4ce46870db93d742db94b12dc59c274c4af9551cc8ffb344d8e
gawk-debuginfo-3.1.7-10.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 71d8d8f20774a00123f45bfda3471d6fb20a5b31507c35e5f1df7509c0753904

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