Issued:
2012-02-20
Updated:
2012-02-20

RHBA-2011:1484 - groff bug fix update

Synopsis

groff bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated groff packages that fix this bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

Groff is a document formatting system. Groff takes standard text and formatting commands as input and produces formatted output.

These updated groff packages fix the following bug:

  • Prior to this update groff did not have full path commands in some places and used PATH variables when invoking external binaries. When opening a man page in a restricted shell environment the man page would not be displayed or an erroneous error message, "old character encoding and/or character set", appeared. With this update, groff now uses fully defined paths when invoking external binaries. As a result the man pages can now be displayed in a restricted shell environment. (BZ#448158)

All users of groff are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, 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

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • groff-1.18.1.1-13.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • groff-1.18.1.1-13.el5.i386.rpm
  • groff-perl-1.18.1.1-13.el5.i386.rpm
  • groff-perl-1.18.1.1-13.el5.ppc.rpm
  • groff-1.18.1.1-13.el5.src.rpm
  • groff-gxditview-1.18.1.1-13.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • groff-1.18.1.1-13.el5.s390x.rpm
  • groff-1.18.1.1-13.el5.ia64.rpm
  • groff-perl-1.18.1.1-13.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • groff-gxditview-1.18.1.1-13.el5.i386.rpm
  • groff-perl-1.18.1.1-13.el5.ia64.rpm
  • groff-perl-1.18.1.1-13.el5.s390x.rpm
  • groff-gxditview-1.18.1.1-13.el5.ia64.rpm
  • groff-gxditview-1.18.1.1-13.el5.s390x.rpm
  • groff-gxditview-1.18.1.1-13.el5.ppc.rpm
  • groff-1.18.1.1-13.el5.ppc.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information