- Issued:
- 2017-08-09
- Updated:
- 2017-08-09
RHEA-2017:2455 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Synopsis
bash Shift_JIS enhancement update
Type/Severity
Product Enhancement Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
Updated bash Shift_JIS packages that add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Description
The GNU Bourne-Again Shell (Bash) is a shell or command language interpreter that is compatible with the Bourne shell (sh) and incorporates features from the KornShell interface (ksh) and the C shell (csh). Bash is the default shell for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Shift JIS (SJIS) is a character encoding for the Japanese language. The bash Shift_JIS packages provide Bash support for the SJIS encoding.
This update adds the following enhancement:
- To avoid using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 bash packages that do not contain the latest bug fixes and enhancements, the bash Shift_JIS packages have been upgraded to version 4.1.2 release 48. (BZ#1466607)
Users who require SJIS encoding support for Bash built-in functions are advised to 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.
For details on how to apply this update, refer to:
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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bash-4.1.2-48.el6_9.sjis.1.src.rpm | SHA-256: 2ccc4ec958e2206bedd1b98e3399b22ea5d49e2aae778b4d54e0ff5f63e2c041 |
x86_64 | |
bash-4.1.2-48.el6_9.sjis.1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: c6f63836cb118b0104a074c1ca75de5bfa8227532c5d66d05ec8ac06e0fd70d2 |
bash-debuginfo-4.1.2-48.el6_9.sjis.1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: bfd879f37a2bf6155ccc2386d95e1fd4aba4fc66b60b0e54a643d18593770f58 |
bash-doc-4.1.2-48.el6_9.sjis.1.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 50b0067761da2608e5ea7c6f451218f94d28a4cbc51d1a68011be3ff7ec9541b |
i386 | |
bash-4.1.2-48.el6_9.sjis.1.i686.rpm | SHA-256: 1d36b40a2e985f900ca83d8cace98a9158eece3fa909cf441fc8e98e9a72af4f |
bash-debuginfo-4.1.2-48.el6_9.sjis.1.i686.rpm | SHA-256: cec9bcb449f9a08def6f9cd28dc236101cc8fdfbc26aed0b31c358a962b0b5f7 |
bash-doc-4.1.2-48.el6_9.sjis.1.i686.rpm | SHA-256: 26b902ef40c29860a3850464710e3e35ae3b88072ef62934e592625f332848cc |
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