Issued:

2012-06-20

Updated:

2012-06-20

RHBA-2012:0907 - libselinux bug fix update

Synopsis

libselinux bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated libselinux packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The libselinux packages contain the core library of an SELinux system. The libselinux library provides an API for SELinux applications to get and set process and file security contexts, and to obtain security policy decisions. It is required for any applications that use the SELinux API, and used by all applications that are SELinux-aware.

This update fixes the following bug:

• While the libselinux library was waiting on a netlink socket, if the socket received an EINTR signal, it returned an error which could cause applications like dbus to fail. With this update, the library now retries the netlink socket when it receives an EINTR signal, rather than failing. (BZ#717147)

All users of libselinux are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix 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 https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• libselinux-utils-2.0.94-5.3.el6.x86_64.rpm
• libselinux-debuginfo-2.0.94-5.3.el6.s390x.rpm
• libselinux-ruby-2.0.94-5.3.el6.i686.rpm
• libselinux-static-2.0.94-5.3.el6.x86_64.rpm
• libselinux-ruby-2.0.94-5.3.el6.x86_64.rpm
• libselinux-2.0.94-5.3.el6.s390.rpm
• libselinux-python-2.0.94-5.3.el6.ppc64.rpm
• libselinux-2.0.94-5.3.el6.x86_64.rpm
• libselinux-ruby-2.0.94-5.3.el6.ppc64.rpm
• libselinux-debuginfo-2.0.94-5.3.el6.ppc.rpm
• libselinux-python-2.0.94-5.3.el6.s390x.rpm
• libselinux-static-2.0.94-5.3.el6.s390x.rpm
• libselinux-2.0.94-5.3.el6.ppc.rpm
• libselinux-debuginfo-2.0.94-5.3.el6.ppc64.rpm
• libselinux-2.0.94-5.3.el6.src.rpm
• libselinux-debuginfo-2.0.94-5.3.el6.x86_64.rpm
• libselinux-utils-2.0.94-5.3.el6.ppc64.rpm
• libselinux-devel-2.0.94-5.3.el6.s390.rpm
• libselinux-static-2.0.94-5.3.el6.ppc64.rpm
• libselinux-devel-2.0.94-5.3.el6.s390x.rpm
• libselinux-ruby-2.0.94-5.3.el6.s390x.rpm
• libselinux-utils-2.0.94-5.3.el6.s390x.rpm
• libselinux-devel-2.0.94-5.3.el6.x86_64.rpm
• libselinux-python-2.0.94-5.3.el6.i686.rpm
• libselinux-utils-2.0.94-5.3.el6.i686.rpm
• libselinux-2.0.94-5.3.el6.i686.rpm
• libselinux-2.0.94-5.3.el6.s390x.rpm
• libselinux-debuginfo-2.0.94-5.3.el6.i686.rpm
• libselinux-devel-2.0.94-5.3.el6.i686.rpm
• libselinux-static-2.0.94-5.3.el6.i686.rpm
• libselinux-devel-2.0.94-5.3.el6.ppc.rpm
• libselinux-devel-2.0.94-5.3.el6.ppc64.rpm
• libselinux-debuginfo-2.0.94-5.3.el6.s390.rpm
• libselinux-python-2.0.94-5.3.el6.x86_64.rpm
• libselinux-2.0.94-5.3.el6.ppc64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 717147

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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