Issued:

2012-06-20

Updated:

2012-06-20

RHBA-2012:0925 - util-linux-ng bug fix update

Synopsis

util-linux-ng bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated util-linux-ng packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The util-linux-ng packages contain a set of low-level system utilities that are necessary for a Linux operating system to function.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• The console login time-out value was set to 60 seconds. This could cause the login to time out during the name lookup process on systems with broken DNS (Domain Name Service). With this update, the timeout value has been prolonged to 180 seconds to allow the login process to complete name lookups under these circumstances. (BZ#588419)

• The "fdisk -l" and "sfdisk -l" commands returned confusing warnings for unpartitioned devices similar to the following:

  Disk /dev/mapper/[volume name] doesn't contain a valid partition table

With this update, the commands ignore unpartitioned devices and the problem no longer occurs. (BZ#740163)

• Previously, after the installation of the uuidd package, the uuidd daemon was not enabled by default. With this update, the underlying code has been modified and the uuidd daemon is enabled after installation as expected and can be started by the init script after reboot. (BZ#785142)

• Previously, the script command did not work correctly if called from the csh shell in the /etc/csh.login file. The child processes created by the script inherited the SIGTERM ignore property from csh and could not be terminated with the signal. With this update, the script resets the SIGTERM setting so that the shell is started with the default SIGTERM behavior and its children accept signals as expected. (BZ#797888)

All users of util-linux-ng are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

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

Updated Packages

• libuuid-2.17.2-12.7.el6.ppc.rpm
• libblkid-devel-2.17.2-12.7.el6.i686.rpm
• uuidd-2.17.2-12.7.el6.ppc64.rpm
• util-linux-ng-debuginfo-2.17.2-12.7.el6.ppc64.rpm
• libuuid-2.17.2-12.7.el6.x86_64.rpm
• util-linux-ng-debuginfo-2.17.2-12.7.el6.s390.rpm
• util-linux-ng-debuginfo-2.17.2-12.7.el6.s390x.rpm
• libuuid-devel-2.17.2-12.7.el6.s390x.rpm
• libblkid-devel-2.17.2-12.7.el6.s390x.rpm
• libblkid-devel-2.17.2-12.7.el6.ppc.rpm
• uuidd-2.17.2-12.7.el6.i686.rpm
• libuuid-devel-2.17.2-12.7.el6.ppc64.rpm
• uuidd-2.17.2-12.7.el6.s390x.rpm
• uuidd-2.17.2-12.7.el6.x86_64.rpm
• libuuid-devel-2.17.2-12.7.el6.i686.rpm
• libblkid-devel-2.17.2-12.7.el6.x86_64.rpm
• util-linux-ng-debuginfo-2.17.2-12.7.el6.ppc.rpm
• libblkid-devel-2.17.2-12.7.el6.ppc64.rpm
• libuuid-2.17.2-12.7.el6.s390.rpm
• util-linux-ng-2.17.2-12.7.el6.s390.rpm
• util-linux-ng-2.17.2-12.7.el6.ppc64.rpm
• libblkid-2.17.2-12.7.el6.s390.rpm
• libuuid-2.17.2-12.7.el6.i686.rpm
• libblkid-2.17.2-12.7.el6.s390x.rpm
• util-linux-ng-debuginfo-2.17.2-12.7.el6.i686.rpm
• libuuid-devel-2.17.2-12.7.el6.s390.rpm
• util-linux-ng-2.17.2-12.7.el6.src.rpm
• util-linux-ng-2.17.2-12.7.el6.ppc.rpm
• libuuid-2.17.2-12.7.el6.ppc64.rpm
• libblkid-2.17.2-12.7.el6.x86_64.rpm
• libblkid-devel-2.17.2-12.7.el6.s390.rpm
• util-linux-ng-2.17.2-12.7.el6.x86_64.rpm
• util-linux-ng-2.17.2-12.7.el6.i686.rpm
• util-linux-ng-2.17.2-12.7.el6.s390x.rpm
• libuuid-2.17.2-12.7.el6.s390x.rpm
• libuuid-devel-2.17.2-12.7.el6.ppc.rpm
• libblkid-2.17.2-12.7.el6.ppc64.rpm
• util-linux-ng-debuginfo-2.17.2-12.7.el6.x86_64.rpm
• libblkid-2.17.2-12.7.el6.i686.rpm
• libuuid-devel-2.17.2-12.7.el6.x86_64.rpm
• libblkid-2.17.2-12.7.el6.ppc.rpm

Fixes

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CVEs

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References

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