Issued:
2013-01-07
Updated:
2013-01-07

RHBA-2012:1217 - logwatch bug fix update

Synopsis

logwatch bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated logwatch package that fixes various bugs is now available.

Description

Logwatch is a customizable, pluggable log-monitoring system. It will go through your logs for a given period of time and make a report in the areas that you wish with the detail that you wish. Easy to use - works right out of the package on many systems.

This updated logwatch package includes fixes for the following bugs:

  • Due to an incorrect regular expression, positive changes in temperatures reported by the smartd daemon were shown as unmatched entries in the logwatch output. This update fixes the faulty regular expression and temperature log information is now displayed correctly. (BZ#578806)

  • Prior to this update, logwatch did not correctly parse the RSYSLOG_FileFormat time stamps and displayed them as unmatched entries. With this update, parsing of the rsyslog time stamps has been fixed and works as expected. (BZ#583607)

  • Yum's "applydate" time ranges were not correctly parsed by logwatch and were displayed as unmatched entries. This has been fixed and "applydate" time ranges are no longer displayed as unmatched entries. (BZ#583721)

  • Xen virtual console logins were not correctly parsed by logwatch and were displayed as unmatched entries. This update fixes this bug. (BZ#595068)

  • Logins initiated with the "su -" or "su -l" command were not correctly parsed by logwatch and were displayed as unmatched entries. This update fixes this bug. (BZ#668067)

  • SSH Kerberos (GSS) logins were not correctly parsed by logwatch and were displayed as unmatched entries. This update fixes this bug. (BZ#684577)

All users of logwatch are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes 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 Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • logwatch-7.3-10.el5.noarch.rpm
  • logwatch-7.3-10.el5.src.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information