RHBA-2016:0938 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for tcsh is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The tcsh packages provide an enhanced and widely compatible version of the C shell (csh). The tcsh command-language interpreter can be used as an interactive login shell, as well as a shell script command processor.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 Release Notes and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 Technical Notes linked from the References section.

Users of tcsh are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

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 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

Fixes

• BZ - 717367 - Printing troubles of wide and single-byte character sequences using LANG=C
• BZ - 1134132 - tcsh memory leak with source command
• BZ - 1219923 - Inconsistent state after SIGINT during eval
• BZ - 1298483 - tcsh recognize value 2147483648 in variable as negative because of internal 32bit limitation

CVEs

(none)

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#normal