RHBA-2014:1239 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated udev packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The udev packages implement a dynamic device-directory, providing only the
devices present on the system. This dynamic directory runs in user space,
dynamically creates and removes devices, and provides consistent naming, as well
as a user-space API. The udev packages replace the devfs package and provide
better hot plug functionality.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, a default udev rule for the udev utility led to ignoring device

mapper devices and prevented access to incomplete snapshot devices. With recent
kernels, this rule can now be safely removed, so that device mapper devices now
show up correctly in applications detecting udev events, such as
gnome-volume-manager. (BZ#214639)

• Due to the scsi_id utility returning also the port of a Storage Area Network

(SAN) in the World Wide Identification (WWID), WWID could not limit its results
to only the ID of the intended drive. With this update, the "-x" command-line
option yields an additional ID_SERIAL_SHORT key/value pair, the value of which
does not include the ports of the SAN. (BZ#405021)

• Previously, the udev(8) man page contained grammatical mistakes. With this

update, the man page is grammatically correct. (BZ#481349)

• Prior to this update, the udev utility did not report syntax errors in udev

rules caused by missing quotation marks. The underlying source code has been
fixed, and syntax errors are now logged as intended. (BZ#573785)

Users of udev 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/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

• BZ - 405021 - scsi_id fails to show version info and proper wwids for multipath
• BZ - 481349 - udev: udev man page has grammar problems.
• BZ - 573785 - udev silently ignoring errors

CVEs

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References

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