RHBA-2019:2217 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for coreutils is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The coreutils packages contain the GNU Core Utilities and represent a combination of the previously used GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Users of coreutils 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 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1042840 - wrong handling of bind-mount with "df"
• BZ - 1527391 - ls ignores the -k option to show size in kibibytes
• BZ - 1620624 - Missing single quote at the end of date -d 1may '+%B %-d
• BZ - 1659530 - stat -f fails to recognize smb2 file-system.

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/7.7_Release_Notes/index.html