Issued:

2013-01-08

Updated:

2013-01-08

RHBA-2013:0118 - psmisc bug fix update

Synopsis

psmisc bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated psmisc packages that fix multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The psmisc package contains the pstree, killall, and fuser utilities to manage system processes.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Prior to this update, the fuser utility incorrectly used the "/proc/net/tcp" socket table to list processes. As a consequence, the fuser tool did not list processes that use a UDP port as expected. This update modifies the underlying code to parse the correct "/proc/net/udp" socket table, and fuser now lists processes for UDP ports as expected. (BZ#479345)

• Prior to this update, memory was not correctly allocated. As a consequence, the "killall -g" option could fail to kill a process group. This update modifies the memory allocation. Now, the killall utility works as expected. (BZ#666213)

• Prior to this update, IPv6 addresses were not correctly handled. As a consequence, the fuser command could return empty output for IPv6 sockets. This update modifies the code to handle IPv6 addresses as expected. Now, IPv6 sockets are identified correctly. (BZ#693476)

All users of psmisc 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

Updated Packages

• psmisc-debuginfo-22.2-11.ia64.rpm
• psmisc-debuginfo-22.2-11.i386.rpm
• psmisc-22.2-11.s390x.rpm
• psmisc-debuginfo-22.2-11.ppc.rpm
• psmisc-22.2-11.src.rpm
• psmisc-debuginfo-22.2-11.s390x.rpm
• psmisc-22.2-11.ppc.rpm
• psmisc-22.2-11.ia64.rpm
• psmisc-debuginfo-22.2-11.x86_64.rpm
• psmisc-22.2-11.i386.rpm
• psmisc-22.2-11.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 479345
• This content is not included.BZ - 666213

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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