- Issued:
- 2009-11-18
- Updated:
- 2010-03-30
RHBA-2009:1591 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
pax bug fix update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
An updated pax package that fixes a bug is now available.
Description
pax is the portable archive exchange utility. It is defined by a POSIX
specification, and is able to compress and decompress both tar and cpio
archives, as well as several of their older variants.
This updated pax package fixes the following bug:
- the pax utility creates ustar (Uniform Standard Tape Archive) archives by
default. Attempting to create a ustar archive of a directory which
contained path names that were exactly 100 characters in length caused pax
to fail with the following error message:
pax: File name too long for ustar
With this update, creating ustar archives with pax succeeds regardless of
the length of the absolute paths names of the files and directories being
archived. (BZ#239001)
All users of pax 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/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 - 239001 - pax fails creation of ustar if an absolute name is exactly 100 characters long
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
pax-3.4-2.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 8e4fbf78fa12484ce7f6c2dcf547556bdddfd6402feb1bae39fcf0c8b45d89c6 |
x86_64 | |
pax-3.4-2.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 0c185afbdf4c284be8671163d32cf6680bd3fb23ae2691a82fcb07362ac0c9ca |
ia64 | |
pax-3.4-2.el5.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 073a4efc2140d0d08d7262572c6ad9421adca284544fefc502f3547bdad7f44d |
i386 | |
pax-3.4-2.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 7d6cc3969feff22b3f70484fdbf9362545d6416047ffd1d56da997e5972fd244 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
pax-3.4-2.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 8e4fbf78fa12484ce7f6c2dcf547556bdddfd6402feb1bae39fcf0c8b45d89c6 |
x86_64 | |
pax-3.4-2.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 0c185afbdf4c284be8671163d32cf6680bd3fb23ae2691a82fcb07362ac0c9ca |
i386 | |
pax-3.4-2.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 7d6cc3969feff22b3f70484fdbf9362545d6416047ffd1d56da997e5972fd244 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
pax-3.4-2.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 8e4fbf78fa12484ce7f6c2dcf547556bdddfd6402feb1bae39fcf0c8b45d89c6 |
x86_64 | |
pax-3.4-2.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 0c185afbdf4c284be8671163d32cf6680bd3fb23ae2691a82fcb07362ac0c9ca |
i386 | |
pax-3.4-2.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 7d6cc3969feff22b3f70484fdbf9362545d6416047ffd1d56da997e5972fd244 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
pax-3.4-2.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 8e4fbf78fa12484ce7f6c2dcf547556bdddfd6402feb1bae39fcf0c8b45d89c6 |
s390x | |
pax-3.4-2.el5.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: fa75ca14ad8b1259dbcf6ffbaadd81d1ce00d5177d35ea6f18f4ff4732440e31 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
pax-3.4-2.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 8e4fbf78fa12484ce7f6c2dcf547556bdddfd6402feb1bae39fcf0c8b45d89c6 |
ppc | |
pax-3.4-2.el5.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: 0df44fb3032cc31c93917215c5e9e208ce7cff0d62a73697bf8c9faabe7cdf6e |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
pax-3.4-2.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: 8e4fbf78fa12484ce7f6c2dcf547556bdddfd6402feb1bae39fcf0c8b45d89c6 |
x86_64 | |
pax-3.4-2.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 0c185afbdf4c284be8671163d32cf6680bd3fb23ae2691a82fcb07362ac0c9ca |
i386 | |
pax-3.4-2.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 7d6cc3969feff22b3f70484fdbf9362545d6416047ffd1d56da997e5972fd244 |
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