- Issued:
- 2014-12-17
- Updated:
- 2014-12-17
RHEA-2014:2007 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Synopsis
coreutils Shift_JIS enhancement update
Type/Severity
Product Enhancement Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
Updated coreutils Shift_JIS packages that add one enhancement are now available
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Description
The coreutils packages contain the GNU Core Utilities and represent a
combination of the previously used GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils
packages. Shift JIS (SJIS) is a character encoding for the Japanese language.
The coreutils Shift_JIS packages provide coreutils support for SJIS.
This update adds the following enhancement:
- Previously, the tr command did not correctly handle the Shift JIS (SJIS)
character encoding. As a consequence, when one byte of an SJIS double-byte
character was in the ASCII code range, tr incorrectly converted this SJIS byte,
which corrupted the SJIS double-byte character. With this update, tr has been
modified to skip SJIS-encoded characters when dealing with ASCII input, and
SJIS-encoded characters are now displayed correctly. (BZ#1146792)
All users requiring SJIS encoding support for coreutils should install these
updated packages, which add this enhancement.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata 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/articles/11258
Affected Products
- Red Hat S-JIS Support (for RHEL Server) 6 x86_64
- Red Hat S-JIS Support (for RHEL Server) 6 i386
Fixes
(none)CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat S-JIS Support (for RHEL Server) 6
SRPM | |
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coreutils-8.4-37.el6_6.sjis.1.src.rpm | SHA-256: dff55f520d45a20d34b2e092720a979c9e03c5caaa6ae1242cc731ca79da0a5c |
x86_64 | |
coreutils-8.4-37.el6_6.sjis.1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 130f6d2bbf6000171169417fd1d6dcc3283743411f5ea42fcadc8c62280f9088 |
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-37.el6_6.sjis.1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 0bffb67b7f07e5c39961705b6a7873f3be564f107484c2fc1ca24f6d3ab69899 |
coreutils-libs-8.4-37.el6_6.sjis.1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 98eb818d94fb7aeaae8342a41a7fd753bd286a46b5cd6f2eca3602ee15cf86e2 |
i386 | |
coreutils-8.4-37.el6_6.sjis.1.i686.rpm | SHA-256: 00e6bf0cdc3630fa93320c1e93a45ff42e1e3644edb06b2c9aa0b0d9190d05ab |
coreutils-debuginfo-8.4-37.el6_6.sjis.1.i686.rpm | SHA-256: 1841f127827119fcaff06b90925f1b9aaa30ea3bd6ac11ce6d0caa503e3b135c |
coreutils-libs-8.4-37.el6_6.sjis.1.i686.rpm | SHA-256: d24c6760743d64e473263611aa02bf61be1666974498c9614fc9e66404207337 |
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