- Issued:
- 2009-01-20
- Updated:
- 2009-01-20
RHBA-2008:0881 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
logrotate bug fix update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
An updated logrotate package that fixes various bugs is now available.
Description
The logrotate utility simplifies the administration of multiple log files.
Logrotate allows for the automatic rotation, compression, removal, and
mailing of log files.
This updated logrotate package includes fixes for the following bugs:
- logrotate ignored the "prerotate" and "postrotate" arguments of
configuration scripts. In this updated package, logrotate no longer ignores
these arguments.
- logrotate would stop rotating the logs if the /var/lib/logrotate.status
file became corrupted. In this updated package, logrotate instead displays
an error message and continues to rotate the logs.
- a corrupt status file caused glibc to issue an error message and
logrotate to crash. In this updated package, logrotate simply provides an
error message and continues to rotate the logs.
All users of logrotate are advised to upgrade to this updated package,
which resolves 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
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386
Fixes
- BZ - 431836 - glibc detected double free or corruption
- BZ - 445554 - Logrotate ignores pre/postrotating scripts arguments
- BZ - 447022 - Logrotate doesn't rotate logs if /var/lib/logrotate.status is corrupted
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
logrotate-3.7.4-9.src.rpm | SHA-256: 696b2e9c62696ebeddd84b4c7178611f69b5fe7623e316fa872203a33bc66fde |
x86_64 | |
logrotate-3.7.4-9.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 1d15a4d2b15c5732e6a0ee1c102b2f5336e6ebdb4e3eb23d38b7ff77c84d2a78 |
ia64 | |
logrotate-3.7.4-9.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 118ee6021b8b14048352592863cf40c62f34e917447c8f43046791d604845f43 |
i386 | |
logrotate-3.7.4-9.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 4d8033b842029bb566ecb335d91273c1919227967577f08625b48a4d5f39389e |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
logrotate-3.7.4-9.src.rpm | SHA-256: 696b2e9c62696ebeddd84b4c7178611f69b5fe7623e316fa872203a33bc66fde |
x86_64 | |
logrotate-3.7.4-9.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 1d15a4d2b15c5732e6a0ee1c102b2f5336e6ebdb4e3eb23d38b7ff77c84d2a78 |
i386 | |
logrotate-3.7.4-9.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 4d8033b842029bb566ecb335d91273c1919227967577f08625b48a4d5f39389e |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
logrotate-3.7.4-9.src.rpm | SHA-256: 696b2e9c62696ebeddd84b4c7178611f69b5fe7623e316fa872203a33bc66fde |
x86_64 | |
logrotate-3.7.4-9.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 1d15a4d2b15c5732e6a0ee1c102b2f5336e6ebdb4e3eb23d38b7ff77c84d2a78 |
i386 | |
logrotate-3.7.4-9.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 4d8033b842029bb566ecb335d91273c1919227967577f08625b48a4d5f39389e |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
logrotate-3.7.4-9.src.rpm | SHA-256: 696b2e9c62696ebeddd84b4c7178611f69b5fe7623e316fa872203a33bc66fde |
s390x | |
logrotate-3.7.4-9.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: 1c3774d0cae72c8a435cc72c88bcec5a39db4b3ebd2c8e68c459323894fb1435 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
logrotate-3.7.4-9.src.rpm | SHA-256: 696b2e9c62696ebeddd84b4c7178611f69b5fe7623e316fa872203a33bc66fde |
ppc | |
logrotate-3.7.4-9.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: e94979b66f44051ae2e3b774163a16af97c3b9068a77cad92e9c2b077cf9a423 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
logrotate-3.7.4-9.src.rpm | SHA-256: 696b2e9c62696ebeddd84b4c7178611f69b5fe7623e316fa872203a33bc66fde |
x86_64 | |
logrotate-3.7.4-9.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 1d15a4d2b15c5732e6a0ee1c102b2f5336e6ebdb4e3eb23d38b7ff77c84d2a78 |
i386 | |
logrotate-3.7.4-9.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 4d8033b842029bb566ecb335d91273c1919227967577f08625b48a4d5f39389e |
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