Issued:
2012-05-10
Updated:
2012-05-10

RHBA-2012:0553 - openais bug fix update

Synopsis

openais bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated openais packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The Application Interface Specification (AIS) is an API and a set of policies for developing applications that maintain services during faults. The OpenAIS Standards Based Cluster Framework is an OSI-certified implementation of the Service Availability Forum AIS. The openais package contains the openais executable, OpenAIS service handlers, default configuration files and an init script.

This update fixes the following bug:

  • The syslog utility prints data to standard output as a function with a dynamic number of arguments. Previously, a logged string was passed directly as a format string, and if formatting characters were included, stack overflow or underflow could occur. This consequently caused the aisexec process to terminate unexpectedly with a segmentation fault. The underlying source code has been modified so that aisexec no longer crashes in this scenario. (BZ#817610)

All users of openais are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via 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 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

Updated Packages

  • openais-devel-0.80.6-36.el5_8.2.ppc64.rpm
  • openais-0.80.6-36.el5_8.2.x86_64.rpm
  • openais-devel-0.80.6-36.el5_8.2.x86_64.rpm
  • openais-0.80.6-36.el5_8.2.ppc.rpm
  • openais-devel-0.80.6-36.el5_8.2.ppc.rpm
  • openais-0.80.6-36.el5_8.2.src.rpm
  • openais-0.80.6-36.el5_8.2.i386.rpm
  • openais-devel-0.80.6-36.el5_8.2.i386.rpm
  • openais-devel-0.80.6-36.el5_8.2.ia64.rpm
  • openais-0.80.6-36.el5_8.2.ia64.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information