Issued:

2012-02-20

Updated:

2012-02-20

RHBA-2011:1394 - pdksh bug fix update

Synopsis

pdksh bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

An updated pdksh package that fixes a bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The pdksh package contains a public domain implementation the Korn shell (ksh-88). The ksh shell is a command interpreter intended for both interactive and shell script use.

This updated pdksh package fixes the following bug:

• Prior to this update, when a SIGINT or SIGTERM was sent to a pdksh process, the signal was propagated to the entire process group. As a consequence sending SIGTERM to a process killed other processes even if the first process was not the parent. With this update the SIGINT and SIGTERM signals are correctly propagated and unexpected termination of processes no longer occurs. (BZ634666#)

All users of pdksh 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

• pdksh-5.2.14-37.el5.i386.rpm
• pdksh-5.2.14-37.el5.x86_64.rpm
• pdksh-5.2.14-37.el5.ppc.rpm
• pdksh-5.2.14-37.el5.s390x.rpm
• pdksh-5.2.14-37.el5.src.rpm
• pdksh-5.2.14-37.el5.ia64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 634666

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.