Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2018:2904 - Bug Fix Advisory
Issued:
2018-10-10
Updated:
2018-10-10

RHBA-2018:2904 - Bug Fix Advisory

Synopsis

crash bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

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Topic

Updated crash packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The crash packages provide the core analysis suite, which is a self-contained tool that can be used to investigate live systems, as well as kernel core dumps created by the kexec-tools packages or the Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel.

This update fixes the following bug:

  • Kernel CVE-2014-9322 removed the stackfault exception stack, which in turn

caused the crash utility to generate incorrect backtraces for any active tasks whose backtrace started from a kernel exception stack. A patch has been provided to fix this bug, and crash now produces valid backtraces. (BZ#1577089)

Users of crash 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 - AUS 5.9 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.9 i386

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.9

SRPM
crash-5.1.8-2.el5_9.1.src.rpm SHA-256: 7dc6bc539728fc5ba33eb3ee9faac6366ed3aa4bb4d07f980661a50078637208
x86_64
crash-5.1.8-2.el5_9.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c7bd8abfd5cdac6ab4ba3c320140fb028e7c6174bf10f29896d62c570513e06e
crash-debuginfo-5.1.8-2.el5_9.1.i386.rpm SHA-256: a11424fea6ee1f8781fa1d7eddcf60c575d75a40e03ae0009be9d3591f349871
crash-debuginfo-5.1.8-2.el5_9.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 4cfe75436b2e9a0af88fc89cd03dd1dcbad2ea46cd1725fd952c1218a48e1684
crash-devel-5.1.8-2.el5_9.1.i386.rpm SHA-256: 4e733fe78abd0825a0d943cf22f64cabe15fba41d1a603c25402ebf18eca0e9d
crash-devel-5.1.8-2.el5_9.1.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 570f814c960485d3dc10a3d0fc8dd394fec0feca8398197dd5dd64871a170d1f
i386
crash-5.1.8-2.el5_9.1.i386.rpm SHA-256: 8c3ab5144ce3139bdc1d824478d0ee779a90262813c4539339a8e82d5cf85b6a
crash-debuginfo-5.1.8-2.el5_9.1.i386.rpm SHA-256: a11424fea6ee1f8781fa1d7eddcf60c575d75a40e03ae0009be9d3591f349871
crash-devel-5.1.8-2.el5_9.1.i386.rpm SHA-256: 4e733fe78abd0825a0d943cf22f64cabe15fba41d1a603c25402ebf18eca0e9d

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