RHEA-2014:1993 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated coreutils Shift_JIS packages that add one enhancement are now available
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The coreutils packages contain the GNU Core Utilities and represent a
combination of the previously used GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils
packages. Shift JIS (SJIS) is a character encoding for the Japanese language.
The coreutils Shift_JIS packages provide coreutils support for SJIS.

The type of this advisory has been updated to Red Hat Enhancement Advisory. The
packages included in this revised update have not been changed in any way from
the packages included in the original advisory.

This update adds the following enhancement:

• Previously, the tr command did not correctly handle the Shift JIS (SJIS)

character encoding. As a consequence, when one byte of an SJIS double-byte
character was in the ASCII code range, tr incorrectly converted this SJIS byte,
which corrupted the SJIS double-byte character. With this update, tr has been
modified to skip SJIS-encoded characters when dealing with ASCII input, and
SJIS-encoded characters are now displayed correctly. (BZ#1147815)

Users who require SJIS encoding support with coreutils are advised to upgrade to
these updated packages, which add this enhancement.

Solution

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

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red
Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat S-JIS Support (for RHEL Server) 5 x86_64
• Red Hat S-JIS Support (for RHEL Server) 5 ia64
• Red Hat S-JIS Support (for RHEL Server) 5 i386

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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