RHBA-2015:1428 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated gvfs packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6.

Description

GVFS is the GNOME Desktop Virtual File System layer that allows users to easily
access local and remote data using File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Secure Shell
File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning
(WebDAV), Common Internet File System (CIFS), Server Message Block (SMB), and
other protocols. GVFS integrates with the GNOME I/O (GIO) abstraction layer.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Prior to this update, the gvfsd-gphoto2 utility did not verify whether it

received the data when getting information on the camera attached storage.
Consequently, gvfsd-gphoto2 could terminate unexpectedly if the data was not
received. Now, gvfsd-gphoto2 verifies whether the data was received, and no
longer crashes in the described situation. (BZ#1165676)

• The gvfsd-metadata daemon did not correctly handle the situation when an

application tried to save a metadata entry larger than the size of a journal
file, that is, larger than 32 kB. The daemon wrote all changes from the journal
to the metadata database to make more space for the entry and then created a new
journal file. This operation was repeated in an infinite loop unnecessarily,
overloading the CPU and disk. With this update, the operation is retried only
once. As a result, the metadata entry is not saved if it is too large, and
gvfsd-metadata returns a warning instead. (BZ#1210203)

Users of GVFS 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.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/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 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 Desktop 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 - 1165676 - gvfsd-gphoto2 crashes when iPhone is connected
• BZ - 1210203 - gvfsd-metadata causes high cpu and disk usage

CVEs

(none)

References

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