- Issued:
- 2006-08-09
- Updated:
- 2006-08-09
RHBA-2006:0446 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
ypserv bug fix update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
Updated ypserv packages that include dns lookup functionality and fix
various bugs are now available.
Description
The Network Information Service (NIS) is a system that provides
network information (login names, passwords, home directories, group
information) to all of the machines on a network. NIS allows users
to log in on any machine on the network, as long as the machine has
the NIS client programs running and the user's password is recorded in
the NIS passwd database. NIS was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages
(YP).
This erratum fixes the following issues:
- DNS lookup functionality would cause ypserv to segfault on 64 bit
architectures in certain situations.
- A problem occurred when an application would ask ypserv for
information from a nonexistent map. The ypserv daemon would fail the
request, but would set a status bit incorrectly, causing the
application to not recognize the failure.
All users of ypserv should upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve
these issues.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via Red Hat Network. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:
up2date
This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc
Fixes
- BZ - 185332 - ypserv -b segfaults on dns lookups on 64 bit archs.
- BZ - 185401 - Typo in the startup script
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
ypserv-2.13-14.src.rpm | SHA-256: 3ac7cb95db62e000c5ba4181eec6f968a2eb1df73de7fdc1009ee7cdaf9735f5 |
x86_64 | |
ypserv-2.13-14.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 44cd2a78c5db0e2d74ccaaf166f8127d86b98412ebad9e971656ad8f7acef109 |
ypserv-2.13-14.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 44cd2a78c5db0e2d74ccaaf166f8127d86b98412ebad9e971656ad8f7acef109 |
ia64 | |
ypserv-2.13-14.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 0e53f94776b993909e711a532668764ddc190f843ad2b09de323ab14b02429a0 |
ypserv-2.13-14.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 0e53f94776b993909e711a532668764ddc190f843ad2b09de323ab14b02429a0 |
i386 | |
ypserv-2.13-14.i386.rpm | SHA-256: e2b5caa80f45e62a47757c9bb4a884d658b58d57e862d6982205f009216dec60 |
ypserv-2.13-14.i386.rpm | SHA-256: e2b5caa80f45e62a47757c9bb4a884d658b58d57e862d6982205f009216dec60 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
ypserv-2.13-14.src.rpm | SHA-256: 3ac7cb95db62e000c5ba4181eec6f968a2eb1df73de7fdc1009ee7cdaf9735f5 |
s390x | |
ypserv-2.13-14.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: 1fae9d5e63e5db89881c8f63ec06e900080fbe70e92017dd5dda66d78fd8e539 |
s390 | |
ypserv-2.13-14.s390.rpm | SHA-256: 6a46ccb79961d6dec64923f40991740980850cb12714f663221b5639f70ac8b5 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
ypserv-2.13-14.src.rpm | SHA-256: 3ac7cb95db62e000c5ba4181eec6f968a2eb1df73de7fdc1009ee7cdaf9735f5 |
ppc | |
ypserv-2.13-14.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: 1ce417fe1efc2c912b1a06ba85afcc3552a3143d718aff834abbc63ce9434033 |
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