Issued:
2012-06-12
Updated:
2012-06-12

RHBA-2012:0724 - psacct bug fix update

Synopsis

psacct bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated psacct packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Update Support.

Description

The psacct packages contain utilities for monitoring process activities, including ac, lastcomm, accton, dump-acct and sa. The "ac" command displays statistics about how long users have been logged on. The "lastcomm" command displays information about previously executed commands. The "accton" command turns process accounting on or off. The "dump-acct" command transforms the output file from the accton format to a human-readable format. The "sa" command summarizes information about previously executed commands.

This update fixes the following bug:

  • Previously, improper data type detection could have caused an arithmetic overflow. As a consequence, the dump-acct tool reported incorrect elapsed time values. A patch has been applied so that correct values are reported with this update. (BZ#828725)

All users of psacct 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 https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Virtual Storage Appliance (from RHUI)6.1x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support6.1x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support6.1i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support6.1ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support6.1s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI6.1x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI6.1i386

Updated Packages

  • psacct-debuginfo-6.3.2-63.el6_1.1.ppc64.rpm
  • psacct-6.3.2-63.el6_1.1.src.rpm
  • psacct-6.3.2-63.el6_1.1.s390x.rpm
  • psacct-debuginfo-6.3.2-63.el6_1.1.x86_64.rpm
  • psacct-debuginfo-6.3.2-63.el6_1.1.s390x.rpm
  • psacct-6.3.2-63.el6_1.1.i686.rpm
  • psacct-6.3.2-63.el6_1.1.x86_64.rpm
  • psacct-6.3.2-63.el6_1.1.ppc64.rpm
  • psacct-debuginfo-6.3.2-63.el6_1.1.i686.rpm

Fixes

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CVEs

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References

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Additional information