Issued:

2011-07-13

Updated:

2011-12-06

RHBA-2011:0932 - star bug fix update

Synopsis

star bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated star package that fixes one bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The star utility is a tape- and disk-archiving tool similar to tar that supports saving Access Control List (ACLs) permission information.

This update fixes the following bug:

• Under certain circumstances, the star utility could have terminated unexpectedly with a segmentation fault when used with a file which name was exactly 100 characters long. This segmentation fault has been fixed in this update and no longer occurs. (BZ#611402)

All users of star are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes this bug.

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

• star-debuginfo-1.5-11.el6.x86_64.rpm
• star-1.5-11.el6.ppc64.rpm
• star-1.5-11.el6.x86_64.rpm
• star-1.5-11.el6.i686.rpm
• star-1.5-11.el6.s390x.rpm
• star-debuginfo-1.5-11.el6.i686.rpm
• star-debuginfo-1.5-11.el6.ppc64.rpm
• star-debuginfo-1.5-11.el6.s390x.rpm
• star-1.5-11.el6.src.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 611402

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.