Issued:
2017-05-30
Updated:
2017-05-30

RHBA-2017:1378 - Bug Fix Advisory

Synopsis

ksh bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

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Topic

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

Description

KornShell (ksh) is a Unix shell developed by AT&T Bell Laboratories, which is backward-compatible with the Bourne shell (sh) and includes many features of the C shell. The most recent version is KSH-93. KornShell complies with the POSIX.2 standard (IEEE Std 1003.2-1992).

This update fixes the following bug:

  • Previously, the ksh shell had a leaked memory if the PATH variable was modified before forking a subshell. With this update, the bug has been fixed and ksh now frees the memory as expected. (BZ#1452223)

Users of ksh 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.

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

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
ksh-20120801-34.el6_9.src.rpm SHA-256: df45663ab51631dc9092d31f23c05abecef8d13f993bb27346f4e9b8dab73928
x86_64
ksh-20120801-34.el6_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 508d5e32c02c1ab1abe5c552608afb4225de5f8874071302d12e5a859a983e8f
ksh-debuginfo-20120801-34.el6_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ac4e8e05cc86f7282c7d42787a20e136c01cc1a1228143de757a2b434f259e61
i386
ksh-20120801-34.el6_9.i686.rpm SHA-256: 98110633ef9de3c830f84515d504115ab0eb7024bd7898e5f2dec3eb476d354b
ksh-debuginfo-20120801-34.el6_9.i686.rpm SHA-256: 95bf3ce4085a635cdee717fba95004380dc5fabb78e33500b00216de870f82a0

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6

SRPM
ksh-20120801-34.el6_9.src.rpm SHA-256: df45663ab51631dc9092d31f23c05abecef8d13f993bb27346f4e9b8dab73928
x86_64
ksh-20120801-34.el6_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 508d5e32c02c1ab1abe5c552608afb4225de5f8874071302d12e5a859a983e8f
ksh-debuginfo-20120801-34.el6_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ac4e8e05cc86f7282c7d42787a20e136c01cc1a1228143de757a2b434f259e61
i386
ksh-20120801-34.el6_9.i686.rpm SHA-256: 98110633ef9de3c830f84515d504115ab0eb7024bd7898e5f2dec3eb476d354b
ksh-debuginfo-20120801-34.el6_9.i686.rpm SHA-256: 95bf3ce4085a635cdee717fba95004380dc5fabb78e33500b00216de870f82a0

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
ksh-20120801-34.el6_9.src.rpm SHA-256: df45663ab51631dc9092d31f23c05abecef8d13f993bb27346f4e9b8dab73928
x86_64
ksh-20120801-34.el6_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 508d5e32c02c1ab1abe5c552608afb4225de5f8874071302d12e5a859a983e8f
ksh-debuginfo-20120801-34.el6_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ac4e8e05cc86f7282c7d42787a20e136c01cc1a1228143de757a2b434f259e61
i386
ksh-20120801-34.el6_9.i686.rpm SHA-256: 98110633ef9de3c830f84515d504115ab0eb7024bd7898e5f2dec3eb476d354b
ksh-debuginfo-20120801-34.el6_9.i686.rpm SHA-256: 95bf3ce4085a635cdee717fba95004380dc5fabb78e33500b00216de870f82a0

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
ksh-20120801-34.el6_9.src.rpm SHA-256: df45663ab51631dc9092d31f23c05abecef8d13f993bb27346f4e9b8dab73928
x86_64
ksh-20120801-34.el6_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 508d5e32c02c1ab1abe5c552608afb4225de5f8874071302d12e5a859a983e8f
ksh-debuginfo-20120801-34.el6_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ac4e8e05cc86f7282c7d42787a20e136c01cc1a1228143de757a2b434f259e61
i386
ksh-20120801-34.el6_9.i686.rpm SHA-256: 98110633ef9de3c830f84515d504115ab0eb7024bd7898e5f2dec3eb476d354b
ksh-debuginfo-20120801-34.el6_9.i686.rpm SHA-256: 95bf3ce4085a635cdee717fba95004380dc5fabb78e33500b00216de870f82a0

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
ksh-20120801-34.el6_9.src.rpm SHA-256: df45663ab51631dc9092d31f23c05abecef8d13f993bb27346f4e9b8dab73928
s390x
ksh-20120801-34.el6_9.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 7d1fb5675cb46d48007599903298c4f91956d128c799ea20b4ede08a0414de4a
ksh-debuginfo-20120801-34.el6_9.s390x.rpm SHA-256: cd5373bc036692162eebf90efc09fee3197126471c4a0c4326373d06db93210d

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
ksh-20120801-34.el6_9.src.rpm SHA-256: df45663ab51631dc9092d31f23c05abecef8d13f993bb27346f4e9b8dab73928
ppc64
ksh-20120801-34.el6_9.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: e3bc7fae1acd2a2f3ced656e39e557446a8d59f8d40524de8fe526e88d63cb41
ksh-debuginfo-20120801-34.el6_9.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 42ad3448339942a3e4e02dcd47a36a9c0dea82b8bb4fd6530d856e9eb39254b2

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
ksh-20120801-34.el6_9.src.rpm SHA-256: df45663ab51631dc9092d31f23c05abecef8d13f993bb27346f4e9b8dab73928
x86_64
ksh-20120801-34.el6_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 508d5e32c02c1ab1abe5c552608afb4225de5f8874071302d12e5a859a983e8f
ksh-debuginfo-20120801-34.el6_9.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: ac4e8e05cc86f7282c7d42787a20e136c01cc1a1228143de757a2b434f259e61

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

SRPM
ksh-20120801-34.el6_9.src.rpm SHA-256: df45663ab51631dc9092d31f23c05abecef8d13f993bb27346f4e9b8dab73928
s390x
ksh-20120801-34.el6_9.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 7d1fb5675cb46d48007599903298c4f91956d128c799ea20b4ede08a0414de4a
ksh-debuginfo-20120801-34.el6_9.s390x.rpm SHA-256: cd5373bc036692162eebf90efc09fee3197126471c4a0c4326373d06db93210d

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