RHBA-2014:0533 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

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

Description

The mksh package provides the MirBSD enhanced version of the Public Domain Korn
shell (pdksh), a Bourne-compatible shell, which is largely similar to the
original AT&T Korn shell. Shift_JIS, also known as "SJIS", is a character
encoding for the Japanese language. This package provides mksh support for the
Shift_JIS encoding.

This update fixes the following bug:

• Previously, the mksh shell worked with bytes instead of characters when

looking for the common part of a file name. As a consequence, the common part of
the file name could contain only the beginning part of the border character, and
only a part of the character was printed. With this update, mksh works with
whole characters when looking for the longest common prefix, and tab completion
prints the correct common part as expected. (BZ#771198)

Users of mksh 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 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• 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 6 x86_64
• 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 - 771198 - Tab completion should work with characters instead of bytes

CVEs

(none)

References

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