- Issued:
- 2009-09-02
- Updated:
- 2009-09-02
RHBA-2009:1249 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
busybox bug fix update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
Updated busybox packages that resolve several issues are now available.
Description
BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single
small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you
usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. BusyBox provides a fairly
complete environment for any small or embedded system. This package can
also be useful for recovering from certain types of system failures.
These updated busybox packages provide fixes for the following bugs:
- busybox provides a diff utility that is used extensively during
installation. When this diff utility was called using the '-q' option,
which reports only whether the files differ and not the details of how they
differ, it always exited with an exit status of 0, indicating success. With
this busybox update, the command "diff -q" correctly returns an exit status
that corresponds to the same exit status returned when calling "diff"
without the '-q' option, thus resolving the issue. (BZ#385661)
- invoking the "uname -p" command resulted in the processor type being
listed as "unknown" when it should have been listed, for example, as
"x86_64", or "i686". With these updated packages, "uname -p" either prints
the processor type if known, or, if it is unknown, then the command is
silent. This behavior now corresponds to the behavior of the uname command
in coreutils. (BZ#480105)
- using BusyBox's rpm applet to install an rpm caused busybox to exit due
to a segmentation fault caused by a memory corruption error. This has been
fixed in these updated packages so that installing rpms using the "busybox
rpm" command works as expected and does not fail with a segmentation fault.
(BZ#466896)
- the busybox packages also contained empty debuginfo packages. These have
been removed from this update. (BZ#500547)
All users of busybox are advised to 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/docs/DOC-11259
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 - 440623 - there should be %{?dist} instead of %{dist} in the *.spec on the Release: line
- BZ - 466896 - busybox rpm aborting when requested to install package
- BZ - 480105 - "uname -p" print the processor type as "unknown" during vnc install
- BZ - 500547 - busybox-debuginfo is empty
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
busybox-1.2.0-7.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 69254bd34e2bccef28de1cda836a778bcb06a0a09939ea6330428213749e1342 |
x86_64 | |
busybox-1.2.0-7.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 0875a3667046f31727a9f18f609fd16c2762f9d8f75a7be543d70e85dd60b392 |
busybox-anaconda-1.2.0-7.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 51ce46de760ef44b86dbdf5f12cf5239cb4435a48af155b1062d6237a81a2e13 |
ia64 | |
busybox-1.2.0-7.el5.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 988602d79eb21b01bcd3e669c6bd64531cdf58832fa30e23d5d0cf0e6cee3aef |
busybox-anaconda-1.2.0-7.el5.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 4db354365b7cee2310d356d5ed7dfb5074c1af37b36db4f041b990355e6f63a5 |
i386 | |
busybox-1.2.0-7.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 7ea47fa484aadd5370c19864b1d5bfb39b05b773c9bde7c6707f362d889cbaa5 |
busybox-anaconda-1.2.0-7.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 3d17f09e71967fdc2512cff5e2d131b937f7ee74fadcfa6d066aea5b59b99ed1 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
busybox-1.2.0-7.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 69254bd34e2bccef28de1cda836a778bcb06a0a09939ea6330428213749e1342 |
x86_64 | |
busybox-1.2.0-7.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 0875a3667046f31727a9f18f609fd16c2762f9d8f75a7be543d70e85dd60b392 |
busybox-anaconda-1.2.0-7.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 51ce46de760ef44b86dbdf5f12cf5239cb4435a48af155b1062d6237a81a2e13 |
i386 | |
busybox-1.2.0-7.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 7ea47fa484aadd5370c19864b1d5bfb39b05b773c9bde7c6707f362d889cbaa5 |
busybox-anaconda-1.2.0-7.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 3d17f09e71967fdc2512cff5e2d131b937f7ee74fadcfa6d066aea5b59b99ed1 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
busybox-1.2.0-7.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 69254bd34e2bccef28de1cda836a778bcb06a0a09939ea6330428213749e1342 |
x86_64 | |
busybox-1.2.0-7.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 0875a3667046f31727a9f18f609fd16c2762f9d8f75a7be543d70e85dd60b392 |
busybox-anaconda-1.2.0-7.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 51ce46de760ef44b86dbdf5f12cf5239cb4435a48af155b1062d6237a81a2e13 |
i386 | |
busybox-1.2.0-7.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 7ea47fa484aadd5370c19864b1d5bfb39b05b773c9bde7c6707f362d889cbaa5 |
busybox-anaconda-1.2.0-7.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 3d17f09e71967fdc2512cff5e2d131b937f7ee74fadcfa6d066aea5b59b99ed1 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
busybox-1.2.0-7.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 69254bd34e2bccef28de1cda836a778bcb06a0a09939ea6330428213749e1342 |
s390x | |
busybox-1.2.0-7.el5.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: 4d607a816dc4a096021014e634396aafe53105852a50f8a37a211da73bc5e68c |
busybox-anaconda-1.2.0-7.el5.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: 8ad0a02eb92e2b49d00c855414923d10c76158b26d1cb48ba26699aebf222d4c |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
busybox-1.2.0-7.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 69254bd34e2bccef28de1cda836a778bcb06a0a09939ea6330428213749e1342 |
ppc | |
busybox-1.2.0-7.el5.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: 9b57ddfa7d82eddc1ad8d295d1d3010c7bf58b4ac5f1c355a431d3f699f6d203 |
busybox-anaconda-1.2.0-7.el5.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: 67105ede43394f61b3e97864566a161dad97328c21da1494e9e925ebfe7882bd |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
busybox-1.2.0-7.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 69254bd34e2bccef28de1cda836a778bcb06a0a09939ea6330428213749e1342 |
x86_64 | |
busybox-1.2.0-7.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 0875a3667046f31727a9f18f609fd16c2762f9d8f75a7be543d70e85dd60b392 |
busybox-anaconda-1.2.0-7.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 51ce46de760ef44b86dbdf5f12cf5239cb4435a48af155b1062d6237a81a2e13 |
i386 | |
busybox-1.2.0-7.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 7ea47fa484aadd5370c19864b1d5bfb39b05b773c9bde7c6707f362d889cbaa5 |
busybox-anaconda-1.2.0-7.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 3d17f09e71967fdc2512cff5e2d131b937f7ee74fadcfa6d066aea5b59b99ed1 |
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