Issued:
2014-05-22
Updated:
2014-10-13

RHBA-2014:0533 - mksh bug fix

Synopsis

mksh bug fix

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated mksh packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The mksh package provides the MirBSD enhanced version of the Public Domain Korn shell (pdksh), a Bourne-compatible shell, which is largely similar to the original AT&T Korn shell. Shift_JIS, also known as "SJIS", is a character encoding for the Japanese language. This package provides mksh support for the Shift_JIS encoding.

This update fixes the following bug:

  • Previously, the mksh shell worked with bytes instead of characters when looking for the common part of a file name. As a consequence, the common part of the file name could contain only the beginning part of the border character, and only a part of the character was printed. With this update, mksh works with whole characters when looking for the longest common prefix, and tab completion prints the correct common part as expected. (BZ#771198)

Users of mksh 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 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 - 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

  • mksh-debuginfo-39-9.el6.s390x.rpm
  • mksh-39-9.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • mksh-debuginfo-39-9.el6.i686.rpm
  • mksh-39-9.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • mksh-39-9.el6.i686.rpm
  • mksh-debuginfo-39-9.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • mksh-39-9.el6.s390x.rpm
  • mksh-39-9.el6.src.rpm
  • mksh-debuginfo-39-9.el6.ppc64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information