Issued:
2014-02-24
Updated:
2014-02-24

RHBA-2014:0198 - am-utils bug fix update

Synopsis

am-utils bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated am-utils packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

[Updated 25 February 2014] This advisory has been updated with the correct description of the ENOENT error. No changes have been made to the packages.

Description

The am-utils packages provide the BSD automounter, Amd, which maintains a cache of mounted file systems. File systems are mounted when they are first referenced by a user, and unmounted after a period of inactivity.

This update fixes the following bug:

  • Previously, the am-utils automount utility (amd) did not properly handle possible "no such entity" error (ENOENT) returns when executing the umount system calls on file systems mounted within the autofs file system. As a consequence, amd terminated unexpectedly with a segmentation fault under some circumstances. With this update, amd handles ENOENT returns as expected, and the problem no longer occurs. (BZ#1065876)

Users of am-utils 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/site/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

  • am-utils-debuginfo-6.1.5-9.el5_10.i386.rpm
  • am-utils-debuginfo-6.1.5-9.el5_10.x86_64.rpm
  • am-utils-6.1.5-9.el5_10.src.rpm
  • am-utils-6.1.5-9.el5_10.ppc.rpm
  • am-utils-debuginfo-6.1.5-9.el5_10.ppc.rpm
  • am-utils-6.1.5-9.el5_10.i386.rpm
  • am-utils-6.1.5-9.el5_10.s390x.rpm
  • am-utils-debuginfo-6.1.5-9.el5_10.ia64.rpm
  • am-utils-6.1.5-9.el5_10.x86_64.rpm
  • am-utils-6.1.5-9.el5_10.ia64.rpm
  • am-utils-debuginfo-6.1.5-9.el5_10.s390x.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information