RHBA-2013:1299 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated cpio packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5.

Description

The cpio packages provide the GNU cpio utility for creating and extracting
archives, or copying files from one place to another.

This update fixes the following bug:

• Previously, the cpio command was unable to split file names longer than 155

bytes into two parts during the creation of archives of the "ustar" format.
Consequently, cpio could store malformed file names or terminate unexpectedly
with a segmentation fault. With this update, cpio now handles long file names
without problems, and crashes no longer occur in the described scenario.
(BZ#867834)

Users of cpio 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/site/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

(none)

References

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