Issued:
2012-08-22
Updated:
2013-02-20

RHBA-2012:1192 - ftp bug fix update

Synopsis

ftp bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

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

Description

The ftp package provides the standard UNIX command line File Transfer Protocol (FTP) client. FTP is a widely used protocol for transferring files over the Internet, and for archiving files.

This update fixes the following bug:

  • Prior to this update, using the ftp command "put" when the stack size was set to unlimited caused the sysconf(_SC_ARG_MAX) function to return -1, which in turn resulted in the malloc() function being called with an argument of 0 and causing an "Out of memory" message to be displayed. With this update, the underlying source code has been improved to allocate a reasonable minimum of memory. As a result, the "Out of memory" message no longer appears if the stack size was previously set to unlimited. (BZ#783868)

All users of ftp 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

  • ftp-0.17-51.3.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • ftp-0.17-51.3.el6.src.rpm
  • ftp-debuginfo-0.17-51.3.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • ftp-0.17-51.3.el6.s390x.rpm
  • ftp-0.17-51.3.el6.i686.rpm
  • ftp-debuginfo-0.17-51.3.el6.i686.rpm
  • ftp-debuginfo-0.17-51.3.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • ftp-0.17-51.3.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • ftp-debuginfo-0.17-51.3.el6.s390x.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information