RHBA-2013:0407 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated parted packages that fix three bugs are now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The parted packages provide a disk partitioning and partition resizing program
to create, destroy, resize, move and copy ext2, linux-swap, FAT, FAT32, and
reiserfs partitions.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Prior to this update, the parted program did not handle unexpected values in

the HFS+ filesystem correctly. As a consequence, parted aborted with a
segmentation fault. This update adds additional checks for unexpected values to
the HFS+ code. Now, parted no longer aborts when handling unexpected values.
(BZ#797979)

• Prior to this update, the parted program re-synchronized only the first 16

partitions on dm devices. As a consequence, all partitions after the 16th only
appeared after reboot. This update modifies the underlying code to resynchronize
all of the partitions. Now, new partitions also appear without a reboot.
(BZ#803108)

All parted users 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 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

• BZ - 797979 - don't abort upon unexpected file system contents
• BZ - 803108 - Block devices are not created for 17th(or higher) partition of a device mapper volume
• BZ - 832145 - parted unsets device-mapper partitions' UUIDs when doing a commit to a device-mapper disk

CVEs

(none)

References

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