Issued:
2012-07-03
Updated:
2012-07-03

RHBA-2012:1051 - psacct bug fix update

Synopsis

psacct bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated psacct packages that fix two bugs 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, dump-utmp 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 "dump-utmp" command prints utmp files in human-readable format. The "sa" command summarizes information about previously executed commands.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • 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#828726)

  • Previously, improper data type conversion caused the dump-utmp tool to report invalid timestamps. Consequently, mainly on the 64-bit PowerPC architecture, dump-utmp could have terminated unexpectedly with a segmentation fault. A patch has been applied so that correct values are reported and no crashes occur with this update. (BZ#834216)

All users of psacct 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

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Storage2.0x86_64
Red Hat Storage for Public Cloud (via RHUI)2.0x86_64
Red Hat Gluster Storage Server for On-premise2.0x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support6.2x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support6.2i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support6.2ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support6.2s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI6.2x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI6.2i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS6.2x86_64

Updated Packages

  • psacct-debuginfo-6.3.2-63.el6_2.2.x86_64.rpm
  • psacct-debuginfo-6.3.2-63.el6_2.2.s390x.rpm
  • psacct-6.3.2-63.el6_2.2.src.rpm
  • psacct-6.3.2-63.el6_2.2.x86_64.rpm
  • psacct-6.3.2-63.el6_2.2.ppc64.rpm
  • psacct-debuginfo-6.3.2-63.el6_2.2.ppc64.rpm
  • psacct-6.3.2-63.el6_2.2.i686.rpm
  • psacct-6.3.2-63.el6_2.2.s390x.rpm
  • psacct-debuginfo-6.3.2-63.el6_2.2.i686.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information