Issued:: 2017-03-21
Updated:: 2017-03-21

RHBA-2017:0756 - Bug Fix Advisory

Overview
Updated Packages

Synopsis

grep bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

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Topic

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

Description

The grep utility searches through textual input for lines that contain a match to a specified pattern and then prints the matching lines. The GNU grep utilities include grep, egrep, and fgrep.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 Release Notes and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.9 Technical Notes linked from the References section.

Users of grep 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 - 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 - 1256756 - grep -r has been broken in RHEL 6.7
BZ - 1287074 - grep-2.20: fix grep -E '^a|a$'

CVEs

(none)

References

Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
grep-2.20-6.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 2d6437541c3f09826913e4d268aedfc61c314aeb690ef6c19a4df5b175aa1a0f
x86_64
grep-2.20-6.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 122207c2fa727c2b6cfd7c104889c0325b2de631fbc053756b2601560f444152
grep-2.20-6.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 122207c2fa727c2b6cfd7c104889c0325b2de631fbc053756b2601560f444152
grep-debuginfo-2.20-6.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: d7c82a91ef64f9932c3010efd1f622c1160e3cbeba9a2114d6f042edbd25262e
grep-debuginfo-2.20-6.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: d7c82a91ef64f9932c3010efd1f622c1160e3cbeba9a2114d6f042edbd25262e
i386
grep-2.20-6.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: aba868023d40a7c7e7aa84bb44199c19da26222953510dedbdd1aa9b6c667642
grep-debuginfo-2.20-6.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 4a79b0849bcfed1d679e963dd50b5d7d4efa2c8499622f7a8697ea7c500c26c7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6

SRPM
grep-2.20-6.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 2d6437541c3f09826913e4d268aedfc61c314aeb690ef6c19a4df5b175aa1a0f
x86_64
grep-2.20-6.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 122207c2fa727c2b6cfd7c104889c0325b2de631fbc053756b2601560f444152
grep-debuginfo-2.20-6.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: d7c82a91ef64f9932c3010efd1f622c1160e3cbeba9a2114d6f042edbd25262e
i386
grep-2.20-6.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: aba868023d40a7c7e7aa84bb44199c19da26222953510dedbdd1aa9b6c667642
grep-debuginfo-2.20-6.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 4a79b0849bcfed1d679e963dd50b5d7d4efa2c8499622f7a8697ea7c500c26c7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
grep-2.20-6.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 2d6437541c3f09826913e4d268aedfc61c314aeb690ef6c19a4df5b175aa1a0f
x86_64
grep-2.20-6.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 122207c2fa727c2b6cfd7c104889c0325b2de631fbc053756b2601560f444152
grep-debuginfo-2.20-6.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: d7c82a91ef64f9932c3010efd1f622c1160e3cbeba9a2114d6f042edbd25262e
i386
grep-2.20-6.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: aba868023d40a7c7e7aa84bb44199c19da26222953510dedbdd1aa9b6c667642
grep-debuginfo-2.20-6.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 4a79b0849bcfed1d679e963dd50b5d7d4efa2c8499622f7a8697ea7c500c26c7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
grep-2.20-6.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 2d6437541c3f09826913e4d268aedfc61c314aeb690ef6c19a4df5b175aa1a0f
x86_64
grep-2.20-6.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 122207c2fa727c2b6cfd7c104889c0325b2de631fbc053756b2601560f444152
grep-debuginfo-2.20-6.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: d7c82a91ef64f9932c3010efd1f622c1160e3cbeba9a2114d6f042edbd25262e
i386
grep-2.20-6.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: aba868023d40a7c7e7aa84bb44199c19da26222953510dedbdd1aa9b6c667642
grep-debuginfo-2.20-6.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 4a79b0849bcfed1d679e963dd50b5d7d4efa2c8499622f7a8697ea7c500c26c7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
grep-2.20-6.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 2d6437541c3f09826913e4d268aedfc61c314aeb690ef6c19a4df5b175aa1a0f
s390x
grep-2.20-6.el6.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: ff4d1af68d54c58aab6bf80b71c5defa26eca8420937ee49b9841e223b23090d
grep-debuginfo-2.20-6.el6.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: 2eac0f771195ee7f8f19d81c2ad7b3b3d7a1fba2c5382ed5c9673fba98f9125b

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
grep-2.20-6.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 2d6437541c3f09826913e4d268aedfc61c314aeb690ef6c19a4df5b175aa1a0f
ppc64
grep-2.20-6.el6.ppc64.rpm	SHA-256: 0a1ef8c76258158bfff8054ac56db14302e54a0e5b0fdc3bef11b411cab1853d
grep-debuginfo-2.20-6.el6.ppc64.rpm	SHA-256: afbc49fe8dd4ae5fc5d8a811b1d7310f35bb093ddb570a517d2eca438df5b0c9

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
grep-2.20-6.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 2d6437541c3f09826913e4d268aedfc61c314aeb690ef6c19a4df5b175aa1a0f
x86_64
grep-2.20-6.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 122207c2fa727c2b6cfd7c104889c0325b2de631fbc053756b2601560f444152
grep-debuginfo-2.20-6.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: d7c82a91ef64f9932c3010efd1f622c1160e3cbeba9a2114d6f042edbd25262e

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6

SRPM
grep-2.20-6.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 2d6437541c3f09826913e4d268aedfc61c314aeb690ef6c19a4df5b175aa1a0f
s390x
grep-2.20-6.el6.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: ff4d1af68d54c58aab6bf80b71c5defa26eca8420937ee49b9841e223b23090d
grep-debuginfo-2.20-6.el6.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: 2eac0f771195ee7f8f19d81c2ad7b3b3d7a1fba2c5382ed5c9673fba98f9125b

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6

SRPM
grep-2.20-6.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 2d6437541c3f09826913e4d268aedfc61c314aeb690ef6c19a4df5b175aa1a0f
x86_64
grep-2.20-6.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 122207c2fa727c2b6cfd7c104889c0325b2de631fbc053756b2601560f444152
grep-debuginfo-2.20-6.el6.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: d7c82a91ef64f9932c3010efd1f622c1160e3cbeba9a2114d6f042edbd25262e
i386
grep-2.20-6.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: aba868023d40a7c7e7aa84bb44199c19da26222953510dedbdd1aa9b6c667642
grep-debuginfo-2.20-6.el6.i686.rpm	SHA-256: 4a79b0849bcfed1d679e963dd50b5d7d4efa2c8499622f7a8697ea7c500c26c7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6

SRPM
grep-2.20-6.el6.src.rpm	SHA-256: 2d6437541c3f09826913e4d268aedfc61c314aeb690ef6c19a4df5b175aa1a0f
s390x
grep-2.20-6.el6.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: ff4d1af68d54c58aab6bf80b71c5defa26eca8420937ee49b9841e223b23090d
grep-debuginfo-2.20-6.el6.s390x.rpm	SHA-256: 2eac0f771195ee7f8f19d81c2ad7b3b3d7a1fba2c5382ed5c9673fba98f9125b

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