RHEA-2013:1106 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated coreutils packages that add one enhancement are now available for Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The coreutils packages contain core GNU utilities, which represents a
combination of the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.
Shift_JIS (SJIS), is a character encoding for the Japanese language. These
packages provide coreutils support for the Shift_JIS encoding.

This update fixes the following enhancement:

• To avoid using the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 coreutils packages that do not

contain the latest bug fixes and enhancements, the coreutils Shift_JIS packages
have been upgraded to version 8.4. Among other changes, the coreutils Shift_JIS
packages provide a fix ensuring that the "printf" command is now able to display
characters encoded in SJIS properly. (BZ#844840)

All users who require SJIS encoding support for coreutils are advised to upgrade
to these updated packages, which add this enhancement.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat
Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat S-JIS Support (for RHEL Server) 6 x86_64
• Red Hat S-JIS Support (for RHEL Server) 6 i386

Fixes

CVEs

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References

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