Issued:
2012-11-19
Updated:
2013-02-20

RHBA-2012:1472 - quota bug fix update

Synopsis

quota bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated quota packages that fix multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The quota packages contain a suite of system administration tools for monitoring and limiting user and group disk usage on file systems.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • Prior to this update, warnquota sent emails from This content is not included.root@myhost.com if the quota limit was exceeded and the warnquota tool was enabled to send warning emails and the default warnquota configuration was not changed. As a consequence, users could wrongly reply to this address and email bounces were delivered to the mailbox of This content is not included.root@myhost.com. This update modifies the default warnquota configuration to use the reserved domain "example.com". (BZ#680919)

  • Prior to this update, the option "-r" for setquota and edquota failed to set the grace times for NFS-mounted file systems without reporting errors because the underlying remote procedure call protocol does not support this option. This update disables the option "-r". With this update, the option to set grace times over the network is disabled and error messages are sent when using the "-r" option. (BZ#683554)

  • Prior to this update, the quotacheck tool could mishandle UIDs in processed fsv1 quota files if a user's block limit was reached. This update zeroes uninitialized padding in the "v2r1 ddquot" structure before running subsequent checks. (BZ#692390)

  • Prior to this update, the edquota tool could abort with a segmentation fault if the name server switch was configured to use the libdb back end. This update modifies the underlying code to make the "dirname" symbol in edquota sources static to avoid pollution of the symbol name space confusing the dynamic linker. Now, edquota runs on systems which use the Berkeley DB (BDB) database for storing user names, group names, or passwords. (BZ#704216)

  • Prior to this update, the quota_nld service logged the error message "Failed to find tty of [UID] to report warning to" when users without an interactive session exceeded the disk quota limit while running quota_nld service. This update applies these warnings to non-daemon debugging mode of quota_nld only. (BZ#730057)

  • Prior to this update, the warnquota tool sent a badly worded email message. This update changes the wording and the text is now worded more representative.((BZ#770307)

All users of quota are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

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 - Retired Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
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

  • quota-devel-3.17-18.el6.s390.rpm
  • quota-3.17-18.el6.s390x.rpm
  • quota-devel-3.17-18.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • quota-devel-3.17-18.el6.ppc.rpm
  • quota-debuginfo-3.17-18.el6.s390.rpm
  • quota-debuginfo-3.17-18.el6.ppc.rpm
  • quota-debuginfo-3.17-18.el6.i686.rpm
  • quota-debuginfo-3.17-18.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • quota-3.17-18.el6.src.rpm
  • quota-devel-3.17-18.el6.i686.rpm
  • quota-debuginfo-3.17-18.el6.s390x.rpm
  • quota-3.17-18.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • quota-3.17-18.el6.i686.rpm
  • quota-debuginfo-3.17-18.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • quota-devel-3.17-18.el6.s390x.rpm
  • quota-3.17-18.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • quota-devel-3.17-18.el6.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

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References

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Additional information