Issued:

2011-07-06

Updated:

2011-12-06

RHBA-2011:0924 - acl bug fix update

Synopsis

acl bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated acl packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

Access Control Lists (ACLs) are used to define finer-grained discretionary access rights for files and directories. The acl packages contain the getfacl and setfacl utilities needed for manipulating access control lists.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Prior to this update, the setfacl.1 man page was not intelligible in that it did not state that removing a non-existent ACL entry is not considered to be an error. With this update, the setfacl.1 man page has been updated so that its content is now intelligible and exactly specifies the aforementioned behavior with regard to removing a non-existent ACL entry. (BZ#674883)

• Prior to this update, the package specification did not reflect a change of the upstream project web page address. This update corrects the respective address in the package specification. (BZ#702638)

All users of Access Control Lists should upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

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

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• acl-2.2.49-5.el6.src.rpm
• acl-2.2.49-5.el6.x86_64.rpm
• libacl-2.2.49-5.el6.ppc.rpm
• libacl-devel-2.2.49-5.el6.ppc.rpm
• acl-debuginfo-2.2.49-5.el6.x86_64.rpm
• libacl-devel-2.2.49-5.el6.i686.rpm
• acl-2.2.49-5.el6.ppc64.rpm
• acl-debuginfo-2.2.49-5.el6.i686.rpm
• acl-debuginfo-2.2.49-5.el6.ppc64.rpm
• libacl-2.2.49-5.el6.s390.rpm
• libacl-devel-2.2.49-5.el6.s390.rpm
• libacl-devel-2.2.49-5.el6.x86_64.rpm
• acl-debuginfo-2.2.49-5.el6.s390x.rpm
• libacl-2.2.49-5.el6.ppc64.rpm
• libacl-devel-2.2.49-5.el6.s390x.rpm
• libacl-2.2.49-5.el6.i686.rpm
• libacl-2.2.49-5.el6.s390x.rpm
• libacl-2.2.49-5.el6.x86_64.rpm
• acl-debuginfo-2.2.49-5.el6.ppc.rpm
• acl-2.2.49-5.el6.s390x.rpm
• acl-debuginfo-2.2.49-5.el6.s390.rpm
• acl-2.2.49-5.el6.i686.rpm
• libacl-devel-2.2.49-5.el6.ppc64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 674883
• This content is not included.BZ - 702638

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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