gawk bug fix update
| Advisory: | RHBA-2011:1486-1 |
|---|---|
| Type: | Bug Fix Advisory |
| Severity: | N/A |
| Issued on: | 2012-02-20 |
| Last updated on: | 2012-02-20 |
| Affected Products: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) |
Details
An updated gawk package that fixes a bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5.
The gawk package contains the GNU version of awk, a text processing utility. Awk
interprets a special-purpose programming language to do quick and easy text
pattern matching and reformatting jobs.
This updated gawk package fixes the following bug:
* Prior to this update gawk interpreted (under certain circumstances) some
run-time variables as internal zero-length variable prototypes. When gawk tried
to free such run-time variables, it actually freed the internal prototypes, that
were allocated just once due to memory savings. Consequently gawk sometimes
failed and the error message "awk: double free or corruption" was displayed.
With this update the problem has been corrected and the error no longer occurs.
(BZ#629196)
All users of gawk are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes
this bug.
Solution
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/kb/docs/DOC-11259
Updated packages
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) | |
| SRPMS: | |
| gawk-3.1.5-15.el5.src.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2012:0738 |
MD5: 7a607f2eebcca1e0f91aa708e4511a77 SHA-256: c6bbd18ce027d0cda6de1f01dcaceb6469f3ecaa8c8cabf6d0553d4589961862 |
| IA-32: | |
| gawk-3.1.5-15.el5.i386.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2012:0738 |
MD5: 342114ebf5533d97f430c5d3b39fc181 SHA-256: 4e82dee6e8c9d0b7760f221b4bb87bc8da6efabc90f6d2b4c615ac46a465d433 |
| IA-64: | |
| gawk-3.1.5-15.el5.ia64.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2012:0738 |
MD5: f9bb840aaf1ff677600dfc0bf55cc6be SHA-256: 1525bf379abc149d444020bcf28df1001f26d6649bc0d844660bc52bbc437029 |
| PPC: | |
| gawk-3.1.5-15.el5.ppc.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2012:0738 |
MD5: 5c5faa3a5c82ef80085f2c6f09fdd48e SHA-256: 421cd1e180841597083bede5db60b26d594cce4ee188e2128824877330bb3752 |
| s390x: | |
| gawk-3.1.5-15.el5.s390x.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2012:0738 |
MD5: 1865334d89424dd53411f423a60167b0 SHA-256: 192e4b07b5dac2def21bd6de0f9be9a0fbd91eba701de172ed2ab8f25237d7ba |
| x86_64: | |
| gawk-3.1.5-15.el5.x86_64.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2012:0738 |
MD5: 4f3d3dcfcc2244f5643ae70668d36f36 SHA-256: 53d037ed223932ed33d8aea6022bbd7be69ae8ea8321d49d5e5a623f51f9f425 |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) | |
| SRPMS: | |
| gawk-3.1.5-15.el5.src.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2012:0738 |
MD5: 7a607f2eebcca1e0f91aa708e4511a77 SHA-256: c6bbd18ce027d0cda6de1f01dcaceb6469f3ecaa8c8cabf6d0553d4589961862 |
| IA-32: | |
| gawk-3.1.5-15.el5.i386.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2012:0738 |
MD5: 342114ebf5533d97f430c5d3b39fc181 SHA-256: 4e82dee6e8c9d0b7760f221b4bb87bc8da6efabc90f6d2b4c615ac46a465d433 |
| x86_64: | |
| gawk-3.1.5-15.el5.x86_64.rpm File outdated by: RHBA-2012:0738 |
MD5: 4f3d3dcfcc2244f5643ae70668d36f36 SHA-256: 53d037ed223932ed33d8aea6022bbd7be69ae8ea8321d49d5e5a623f51f9f425 |
| (The unlinked packages above are only available from the Red Hat Network) | |
Bugs fixed (see bugzilla for more information)
629196 - gawk regression from RHEL3/4
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