RHBA-2012:1204 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

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

Description

The zsh shell is a command interpreter usable as an interactive login shell and
as a shell script command processor. Zsh resembles the ksh shell, but includes
many enhancements. The zsh shell 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, zsh interpreted variable assignments as other commands

and tried to execute them when running zsh in ksh compatibility mode due to a
parser error. This update modifies the underling code to interpret variable
assignments as expected. (BZ#758681)

• Prior to this update, the tab completion for Apache Subversion (SVN) did not

work as expected when running the "svn diff" command in zsh. This update
modifies the underlying code to ensure that SVN runs as expected. (BZ#788050)

All users of zsh 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/knowledge/articles/11258

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

CVEs

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References

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