Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2018:2894 - Bug Fix Advisory
Issued:
2018-10-09
Updated:
2018-10-09

RHBA-2018:2894 - Bug Fix Advisory

Synopsis

mailx bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

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Topic

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

Description

The mailx packages contain a mail user agent that is mostly used to manage mail using scripts.

This update fixes the following bug:

  • Previously, the mailx mail user agent did not split non-ASCII message headers on multi-byte character boundaries when encoding into the Multipurpose Internet Mail Extension (MIME) standard. As a consequence, the headers were incorrectly decoded. This update modifies the MIME encoding function so that it splits headers into encoded words on multi-byte character boundaries. As a result, mailx now sends messages with headers that can be properly decoded. (BZ#1545837)

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

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
  • 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

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
mailx-12.4-10.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: 23718120bd929fb0c5b08591bfc38d2ddc76b0f3bc25ee1141f00955e4cd9cfe
x86_64
mailx-12.4-10.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6ed9be0aa2fe409c286ee9dc1a19fd8a133fcbd66ccd4615c9bf375049d48348
mailx-12.4-10.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6ed9be0aa2fe409c286ee9dc1a19fd8a133fcbd66ccd4615c9bf375049d48348
mailx-debuginfo-12.4-10.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 83d8f66596fa98cadf5526feb119a85c5b36a94dc9c25e26f563a62b9c16cdf0
mailx-debuginfo-12.4-10.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 83d8f66596fa98cadf5526feb119a85c5b36a94dc9c25e26f563a62b9c16cdf0
i386
mailx-12.4-10.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: cae2f46f5bf97415ff2d482fe4bda0f1b4836c87059cfa29c4c29ff69e70932d
mailx-debuginfo-12.4-10.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: a3cd52f432d47bfe29759600e643014683b55f074b4ab737c3c919897b2ce172

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6

SRPM
mailx-12.4-10.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: 23718120bd929fb0c5b08591bfc38d2ddc76b0f3bc25ee1141f00955e4cd9cfe
x86_64
mailx-12.4-10.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6ed9be0aa2fe409c286ee9dc1a19fd8a133fcbd66ccd4615c9bf375049d48348
mailx-debuginfo-12.4-10.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 83d8f66596fa98cadf5526feb119a85c5b36a94dc9c25e26f563a62b9c16cdf0
i386
mailx-12.4-10.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: cae2f46f5bf97415ff2d482fe4bda0f1b4836c87059cfa29c4c29ff69e70932d
mailx-debuginfo-12.4-10.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: a3cd52f432d47bfe29759600e643014683b55f074b4ab737c3c919897b2ce172

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
mailx-12.4-10.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: 23718120bd929fb0c5b08591bfc38d2ddc76b0f3bc25ee1141f00955e4cd9cfe
x86_64
mailx-12.4-10.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6ed9be0aa2fe409c286ee9dc1a19fd8a133fcbd66ccd4615c9bf375049d48348
mailx-debuginfo-12.4-10.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 83d8f66596fa98cadf5526feb119a85c5b36a94dc9c25e26f563a62b9c16cdf0
i386
mailx-12.4-10.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: cae2f46f5bf97415ff2d482fe4bda0f1b4836c87059cfa29c4c29ff69e70932d
mailx-debuginfo-12.4-10.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: a3cd52f432d47bfe29759600e643014683b55f074b4ab737c3c919897b2ce172

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
mailx-12.4-10.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: 23718120bd929fb0c5b08591bfc38d2ddc76b0f3bc25ee1141f00955e4cd9cfe
x86_64
mailx-12.4-10.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6ed9be0aa2fe409c286ee9dc1a19fd8a133fcbd66ccd4615c9bf375049d48348
mailx-debuginfo-12.4-10.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 83d8f66596fa98cadf5526feb119a85c5b36a94dc9c25e26f563a62b9c16cdf0
i386
mailx-12.4-10.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: cae2f46f5bf97415ff2d482fe4bda0f1b4836c87059cfa29c4c29ff69e70932d
mailx-debuginfo-12.4-10.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: a3cd52f432d47bfe29759600e643014683b55f074b4ab737c3c919897b2ce172

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
mailx-12.4-10.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: 23718120bd929fb0c5b08591bfc38d2ddc76b0f3bc25ee1141f00955e4cd9cfe
s390x
mailx-12.4-10.el6_10.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 3f65beedfb179350d4f66ea40cef027785868c6c2f3e1589ab72b8b4a0be7a37
mailx-debuginfo-12.4-10.el6_10.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 3064064cc99a6b77584f67d5e3ffd9bb9a7c12bc6d7fa5f08f02c32a4519d05f

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
mailx-12.4-10.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: 23718120bd929fb0c5b08591bfc38d2ddc76b0f3bc25ee1141f00955e4cd9cfe
ppc64
mailx-12.4-10.el6_10.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: c3d3b783ae9b406b7645b0fe233c82070ae3c44ebbda2bbd7f56e85e2d50f9b4
mailx-debuginfo-12.4-10.el6_10.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 621d786c064bac73f024f7f185155dcf538ee44967ae960ee5ea070eac647b50

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
mailx-12.4-10.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: 23718120bd929fb0c5b08591bfc38d2ddc76b0f3bc25ee1141f00955e4cd9cfe
x86_64
mailx-12.4-10.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6ed9be0aa2fe409c286ee9dc1a19fd8a133fcbd66ccd4615c9bf375049d48348
mailx-debuginfo-12.4-10.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 83d8f66596fa98cadf5526feb119a85c5b36a94dc9c25e26f563a62b9c16cdf0

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

SRPM
mailx-12.4-10.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: 23718120bd929fb0c5b08591bfc38d2ddc76b0f3bc25ee1141f00955e4cd9cfe
s390x
mailx-12.4-10.el6_10.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 3f65beedfb179350d4f66ea40cef027785868c6c2f3e1589ab72b8b4a0be7a37
mailx-debuginfo-12.4-10.el6_10.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 3064064cc99a6b77584f67d5e3ffd9bb9a7c12bc6d7fa5f08f02c32a4519d05f

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

SRPM
mailx-12.4-10.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: 23718120bd929fb0c5b08591bfc38d2ddc76b0f3bc25ee1141f00955e4cd9cfe
x86_64
mailx-12.4-10.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 6ed9be0aa2fe409c286ee9dc1a19fd8a133fcbd66ccd4615c9bf375049d48348
mailx-debuginfo-12.4-10.el6_10.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 83d8f66596fa98cadf5526feb119a85c5b36a94dc9c25e26f563a62b9c16cdf0
i386
mailx-12.4-10.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: cae2f46f5bf97415ff2d482fe4bda0f1b4836c87059cfa29c4c29ff69e70932d
mailx-debuginfo-12.4-10.el6_10.i686.rpm SHA-256: a3cd52f432d47bfe29759600e643014683b55f074b4ab737c3c919897b2ce172

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

SRPM
mailx-12.4-10.el6_10.src.rpm SHA-256: 23718120bd929fb0c5b08591bfc38d2ddc76b0f3bc25ee1141f00955e4cd9cfe
s390x
mailx-12.4-10.el6_10.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 3f65beedfb179350d4f66ea40cef027785868c6c2f3e1589ab72b8b4a0be7a37
mailx-debuginfo-12.4-10.el6_10.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 3064064cc99a6b77584f67d5e3ffd9bb9a7c12bc6d7fa5f08f02c32a4519d05f

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