Bug Fix Advisory ksh bug fix update

Advisory: RHBA-2007:0771-2
Type: Bug Fix Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2007-11-15
Last updated on: 2007-11-15
Affected Products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras (v. 4)
OVAL: N/A

Details

Updated ksh packages that address various bugs are now available.

KSH-93 is the most recent version of the KornShell by David Korn of AT&T
Bell Laboratories. KornShell is a shell programming language, which is
upward compatible with "sh" (the Bourne Shell).

This update addresses the following bugs:

* the built-in mkdir command did not respect the default ACL when creating
directories.

* a memory leak could occur when command output was redirected to a file.

* an incorrect result was returned from a spawned process if the process
was stopped and started by signals.

* a script containing 'set -m' could spin in a stopped state.

* the shell could crash with a segmentation fault when processing a switch
statement.

Users of ksh should upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these
issues.


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
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_58_10188

Updated packages

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras (v. 4)

SRPMS:
ksh-20050202-0.4E.4.src.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0704
    3298227543701ef9adcc2a2e7aeba58b
ksh-20050202-0.4E.4.src.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0704
    3298227543701ef9adcc2a2e7aeba58b
ksh-20050202-0.4E.4.src.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0704
    3298227543701ef9adcc2a2e7aeba58b
ksh-20050202-0.4E.4.src.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0704
    3298227543701ef9adcc2a2e7aeba58b
 
IA-32:
ksh-20050202-0.4E.4.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0704
    5b3d8a1d1ebefa7250f6d06d10e0b49c
ksh-20050202-0.4E.4.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0704
    5b3d8a1d1ebefa7250f6d06d10e0b49c
ksh-20050202-0.4E.4.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0704
    5b3d8a1d1ebefa7250f6d06d10e0b49c
ksh-20050202-0.4E.4.i386.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0704
    5b3d8a1d1ebefa7250f6d06d10e0b49c
 
IA-64:
ksh-20050202-0.4E.4.ia64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0704
    2d6fdca0343637bed6d496a2531a492c
ksh-20050202-0.4E.4.ia64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0704
    2d6fdca0343637bed6d496a2531a492c
ksh-20050202-0.4E.4.ia64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0704
    2d6fdca0343637bed6d496a2531a492c
 
PPC:
ksh-20050202-0.4E.4.ppc.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0704
    18d6759b80782e3f3c03c3263a12bbd9
 
s390:
ksh-20050202-0.4E.4.s390.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0704
    21f35d1edec87ead2aa7ecd322df67ce
 
s390x:
ksh-20050202-0.4E.4.s390x.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0704
    224d75dcd7496de12c7d73db8973e7f4
 
x86_64:
ksh-20050202-0.4E.4.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0704
    7bbe9cc6928f720e82f586963d4e9019
ksh-20050202-0.4E.4.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0704
    7bbe9cc6928f720e82f586963d4e9019
ksh-20050202-0.4E.4.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0704
    7bbe9cc6928f720e82f586963d4e9019
ksh-20050202-0.4E.4.x86_64.rpm
File outdated by:  RHBA-2008:0704
    7bbe9cc6928f720e82f586963d4e9019
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)


These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from:
https://www.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at http://www.redhat.com/security/team/contact/