Issued:

2012-02-20

Updated:

2012-02-20

RHBA-2012:0242 - 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 5.

Description

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

These updated acl packages provide fixes for the following bugs:

• Prior to this update, the "-h" and "-v" options of the getfacl and setfacl utilities were not working although they were listed in the documentation. With this update, a patch has been applied and these options are now recognized by the getfacl and setfacl utilities as expected. (BZ#536766)

• Prior to this update, the getfacl and setfacl utilities failed to preserve the SUID and SGID Sticky Bits along with ACLs. Consequently, after restoring ACLs from a file using the "setfacl --restore" command, all the SUID and SGID Sticky Bits were missing. This update applies backported patches from the upstream package and the problem no longer occurs in the scenario described. (BZ#580572)

All users of acl are advised to 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

• libacl-devel-2.2.39-8.el5.ppc64.rpm
• acl-2.2.39-8.el5.s390x.rpm
• acl-2.2.39-8.el5.ia64.rpm
• libacl-devel-2.2.39-8.el5.s390x.rpm
• libacl-2.2.39-8.el5.ia64.rpm
• libacl-devel-2.2.39-8.el5.ppc.rpm
• libacl-devel-2.2.39-8.el5.i386.rpm
• libacl-devel-2.2.39-8.el5.s390.rpm
• libacl-2.2.39-8.el5.s390.rpm
• libacl-2.2.39-8.el5.x86_64.rpm
• acl-2.2.39-8.el5.src.rpm
• libacl-2.2.39-8.el5.s390x.rpm
• acl-2.2.39-8.el5.x86_64.rpm
• libacl-2.2.39-8.el5.ppc64.rpm
• acl-2.2.39-8.el5.ppc.rpm
• libacl-2.2.39-8.el5.i386.rpm
• libacl-devel-2.2.39-8.el5.ia64.rpm
• acl-2.2.39-8.el5.i386.rpm
• libacl-devel-2.2.39-8.el5.x86_64.rpm
• libacl-2.2.39-8.el5.ppc.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 536766
• This content is not included.BZ - 580572

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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