Issued:

2013-07-08

Updated:

2013-07-08

RHBA-2013:1019 - ksh bug fix update

Synopsis

ksh bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated ksh packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Update Support.

Description

KornShell (ksh) is a Unix shell developed by Bell Labs, which is backward-compatible with the Bourne shell and includes many features of the C shell. KornShell complies with POSIX.2 [Shell and Utilities, Command Interpreter] standard.

This update fixes the following bug:

• Previously, the output a of command substitutions was not always redirected properly. Consequently, the output in a here-document could be lost. This update fixes the redirection code for command substitutions, and now the here-document contains the output of command substitutions as expected. (BZ#927584)

Users of ksh 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

Updated Packages

• ksh-20100621-16.el6_3.2.src.rpm
• ksh-debuginfo-20100621-16.el6_3.2.x86_64.rpm
• ksh-debuginfo-20100621-16.el6_3.2.i686.rpm
• ksh-20100621-16.el6_3.2.s390x.rpm
• ksh-20100621-16.el6_3.2.x86_64.rpm
• ksh-debuginfo-20100621-16.el6_3.2.ppc64.rpm
• ksh-20100621-16.el6_3.2.i686.rpm
• ksh-debuginfo-20100621-16.el6_3.2.s390x.rpm
• ksh-20100621-16.el6_3.2.ppc64.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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