Bug Fix Advisory mcstrans bug fix update

Advisory: RHBA-2009:0231-2
Type: Bug Fix Advisory
Severity: N/A
Issued on: 2009-01-20
Last updated on: 2009-01-20
Affected Products: Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)
OVAL: N/A

Details

An updated mcstrans package that fixes a bug is now available.

mcstrans provides a translation daemon to translate SELinux categories from
internal representations to user-defined representations.

This package addresses the following bug:

* A memory leak was discovered within mcstrans. This updated package fixes
the memory leak by freeing the memory before a raw translation,
reinitializing a pointer and verifying that the information string to be
used is not null.

Users of mcstrans are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
resolves this issue.


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 (v. 5 server)

SRPMS:
mcstrans-0.2.11-3.el5.src.rpm     ebf964c24027b944a322db4965b92229
 
IA-32:
mcstrans-0.2.11-3.el5.i386.rpm     81aeb94367af3b8475b5fd6027c61b79
 
IA-64:
mcstrans-0.2.11-3.el5.ia64.rpm     b74989ea44fd310ab1ba1ffb7e22c778
 
PPC:
mcstrans-0.2.11-3.el5.ppc.rpm     a799053aa62d2faf5229352e82c2dbef
 
s390x:
mcstrans-0.2.11-3.el5.s390x.rpm     92daa33cf06fd007fa1326a4807d117e
 
x86_64:
mcstrans-0.2.11-3.el5.x86_64.rpm     c3423f524c2dbf2a7a9602ecbd5b248f
 
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client)

SRPMS:
mcstrans-0.2.11-3.el5.src.rpm     ebf964c24027b944a322db4965b92229
 
IA-32:
mcstrans-0.2.11-3.el5.i386.rpm     81aeb94367af3b8475b5fd6027c61b79
 
x86_64:
mcstrans-0.2.11-3.el5.x86_64.rpm     c3423f524c2dbf2a7a9602ecbd5b248f
 
(The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network)

Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)

457179 - mcstransd has some memory leaks.
468798 - [RHEL5.3] audit test fails "root:system_r:unconfined_t is not a valid context"



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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/