Issued:
2011-05-19
Updated:
2011-05-19

RHBA-2011:0665 - valgrind bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

valgrind bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated valgrind packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

Valgrind is a tool to help users find memory management problems in the programs. Valgrind can detect a lot of problems that are otherwise very hard to find or diagnose.

The valgrind packages have been upgraded to upstream version 3.6.0, which provides several bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#661245)

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • When MySQL Server was run via valgrind, an error in valgrind prevented MySQL Server from writing to its log file and caused it to return a number of error messages. This bug has been fixed and MySQL Server now starts up normally when run via valgrind. (BZ#679906)

  • When the snmpd tool was executed under valgrind on the 64-bit PowerPC architecture, it terminated unexpectedly. This bug has been fixed and the "valgrind /usr/sbin/snmpd" command now works as expected. (BZ#665289)

This update adds the following enhancements:

  • With this update, valgrind now supports IBM POWER 6 and IBM POWER 7 systems. (BZ#630173)

  • With this update, valgrind now supports IBM System z. (BZ#632354)

Users of valgrind are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

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 This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • valgrind-3.6.0-3.el6.i686.rpm
  • valgrind-3.6.0-3.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • valgrind-devel-3.6.0-3.el6.i686.rpm
  • valgrind-devel-3.6.0-3.el6.ppc.rpm
  • valgrind-devel-3.6.0-3.el6.s390x.rpm
  • valgrind-3.6.0-3.el6.s390x.rpm
  • valgrind-devel-3.6.0-3.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • valgrind-openmpi-3.6.0-3.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • valgrind-openmpi-3.6.0-3.el6.i686.rpm
  • valgrind-devel-3.6.0-3.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • valgrind-3.6.0-3.el6.src.rpm
  • valgrind-openmpi-3.6.0-3.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • valgrind-3.6.0-3.el6.ppc.rpm
  • valgrind-3.6.0-3.el6.ppc64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information