- Issued:
- 2009-12-01
- Updated:
- 2009-12-01
RHBA-2009:1621 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
screen bug fix update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
An updated screen package that fixes a bug is now available.
Description
The screen utility allows multiple logins on a single terminal. Screen is
useful for users who telnet into a machine or are connected via a dumb
terminal, but want to use more than one login.
This updated package resolves the following issue:
- in the previous screen release, utempter support was disabled. The
utempter library provides an interface for terminal emulators such as
screen and xterm to record user sessions to utmp and wtmp files. Without
utempter support, commands such as logname and "who am i" did not work in
screen sessions. With this update the screen spec file was updated to
require the libutempter-devel package. This ensures utempter support is
enabled and commands such as logname, "who am i" and "w" work in screen
sessions as expected. (BZ#541875)
All screen users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
resolves this issue.
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
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 for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.4 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.4 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.4 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 IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 5.4 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 5.4 ppc
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386
Fixes
- BZ - 541875 - add utempter support to screen
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
screen-4.0.3-1.el5_4.1.src.rpm | SHA-256: eb43a609370440a0b1391231a52e2eefa38879d07cee0d5d5fc7045fa5a7c531 |
x86_64 | |
screen-4.0.3-1.el5_4.1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: b052f6acc4462a13b08aa0ab98df4742d33d6272bd983634c75bae0f3471be9d |
ia64 | |
screen-4.0.3-1.el5_4.1.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: b0cd74b4c21896fb5bfcece67abe54f2ec780d8960845e80be22bfc3a199ab0e |
i386 | |
screen-4.0.3-1.el5_4.1.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 1924c2f3968222f438aac18fef17348edfd59374d20da8ac85f97ab5b3a8091e |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.4
SRPM | |
---|---|
x86_64 | |
ia64 | |
i386 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
screen-4.0.3-1.el5_4.1.src.rpm | SHA-256: eb43a609370440a0b1391231a52e2eefa38879d07cee0d5d5fc7045fa5a7c531 |
x86_64 | |
screen-4.0.3-1.el5_4.1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: b052f6acc4462a13b08aa0ab98df4742d33d6272bd983634c75bae0f3471be9d |
i386 | |
screen-4.0.3-1.el5_4.1.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 1924c2f3968222f438aac18fef17348edfd59374d20da8ac85f97ab5b3a8091e |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
screen-4.0.3-1.el5_4.1.src.rpm | SHA-256: eb43a609370440a0b1391231a52e2eefa38879d07cee0d5d5fc7045fa5a7c531 |
x86_64 | |
screen-4.0.3-1.el5_4.1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: b052f6acc4462a13b08aa0ab98df4742d33d6272bd983634c75bae0f3471be9d |
i386 | |
screen-4.0.3-1.el5_4.1.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 1924c2f3968222f438aac18fef17348edfd59374d20da8ac85f97ab5b3a8091e |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
screen-4.0.3-1.el5_4.1.src.rpm | SHA-256: eb43a609370440a0b1391231a52e2eefa38879d07cee0d5d5fc7045fa5a7c531 |
s390x | |
screen-4.0.3-1.el5_4.1.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: 1055d08f72e007ea7417f2fd89da6cf1512da25fa95e009d207081b9333fd90b |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 5.4
SRPM | |
---|---|
s390x |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
screen-4.0.3-1.el5_4.1.src.rpm | SHA-256: eb43a609370440a0b1391231a52e2eefa38879d07cee0d5d5fc7045fa5a7c531 |
ppc | |
screen-4.0.3-1.el5_4.1.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: 2570feef0428067e834c2caad3d9c70d89e11a4cc84c0637f147fe8886e5c13c |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 5.4
SRPM | |
---|---|
ppc |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
screen-4.0.3-1.el5_4.1.src.rpm | SHA-256: eb43a609370440a0b1391231a52e2eefa38879d07cee0d5d5fc7045fa5a7c531 |
x86_64 | |
screen-4.0.3-1.el5_4.1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: b052f6acc4462a13b08aa0ab98df4742d33d6272bd983634c75bae0f3471be9d |
i386 | |
screen-4.0.3-1.el5_4.1.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 1924c2f3968222f438aac18fef17348edfd59374d20da8ac85f97ab5b3a8091e |
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