RHBA-2013:0290 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated abrt, libreport and btparser packages that fix multiple bugs and add
various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

ABRT is a tool to help users to detect defects in applications and to create a
problem report with all the information needed by a maintainer to fix it. ABRT
uses a plug-in system to extend its functionality.

The libreport libraries provide an API for reporting different problems in
applications to different bug targets like Bugzilla, ftp, and trac.

The btparser utility is a backtrace parser and analyzer library, which works
with backtraces produced by the GNU Project Debugger. It can parse a text file
with a backtrace to a tree of C structures, allowing to analyze the threads and
frames of the backtrace and process them.

These updated packages include numerous bug fixes and enhancements. Space
precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory. Users are directed
to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 Technical Notes for information on the most
significant of these changes:

https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.4_Technical_Notes/abrt.html

All users of abrt, libreport and btparser 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 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• 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 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

• BZ - 747410 - libreport should create bugzillas according to rh bugzilla default template
• BZ - 799909 - Can't connect to '/var/run/abrt/abrt.socket': Connection refused
• BZ - 808721 - [RFE] Make sure ABRT stores the first not-tainted oops
• BZ - 814594 - too strict check for tainted kernel
• BZ - 820475 - "abrt-ccpp status" returned no status messages
• BZ - 826745 - Undefined non-weak symbols
• BZ - 828673 - abrt missing dependency: libreport-plugin-bugzilla
• BZ - 829161 - Unrecognized variable 'DumpLocation' in '/etc/abrt/abrt.conf'
• BZ - 837333 - abrt-addon-python: The process might hang forever if no one collects the dump it sends
• BZ - 839285 - don't remove new problems from abrt-upload directory
• BZ - 846667 - rebase
• BZ - 847227 - abrt: Do not move kernel vmcore out of /var/crash/
• BZ - 847291 - abrt gets stuck if the "worst dir" is not a "problem directory"
• BZ - 851097 - core_pattern with %e (executable filename) is not matched correctly in abrt-install-ccpp-hook
• BZ - 856960 - abrt should not log the uploader plugin credentials
• BZ - 857425 - silence the rpmdiff warnings about versioned deps
• BZ - 864023 - update translation
• BZ - 864025 - update translation
• BZ - 873815 - abrtd and inotify interaction can deadlock abrtd daemon
• BZ - 892658 - Undefined non-weak symbols libabrt.so.0

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.4_Technical_Notes/abrt.html