Issued:
2012-08-07
Updated:
2013-02-20

RHBA-2012:1146 - gawk bug fix update

Synopsis

gawk bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

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

Description

The gawk packages provide the GNU version of the text processing utility awk. Awk interprets a special-purpose programming language to do quick and easy text pattern matching and reformatting jobs.

This update fixes the following bug:

  • Prior to this update, the "re_string_skip_chars" function incorrectly used the character count instead of the raw length to estimate the string length. As a consequence, any text in multi-byte encoding that did not use the UTF-8 format failed to be processed correctly. This update modifies the underlying code so that the correct string length is used. multi-byte encoding is processed correctly. (BZ#829558)

All users of gawk requiring multi-byte encodings that do not use UTF-8 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

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.i686.rpm
  • gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.s390x.rpm
  • gawk-debuginfo-3.1.7-10.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • gawk-debuginfo-3.1.7-10.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • gawk-debuginfo-3.1.7-10.el6.i686.rpm
  • gawk-debuginfo-3.1.7-10.el6.s390x.rpm
  • gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.src.rpm
  • gawk-3.1.7-10.el6.ppc64.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

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References

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Additional information