Issued:
2014-10-13
Updated:
2014-10-13

RHBA-2014:1610 - keyutils bug fix update

Synopsis

keyutils bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

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

Description

The keyutils packages provide utilities to control the Linux kernel key management facility and to provide a mechanism by which the kernel calls up to user space to get a key instantiated.

This update fixes the following bug:

  • Previously, the "keyctl show" command incorrectly displayed an abbreviated tree of nested keyrings and therefore the keyring trees that were more than two keyrings deep were not fully displayed. This bug has been fixed and "keyctl show" now displays entire keyring trees as expected.

Moreover, the "keyctl show" command did not expand the field width to show the full decimal key ID. With this update, the key ID field is expanded correctly.

Also, the maximum size of input data for the "keyctl padd" command and other pipe-in commands has been increased to 1MB.

Finally, the "keyctl padd" command as well as other pipe-in commands have been modified not to specially handle zero-value bytes in binary input. (BZ#1075652)

Users of keyutils 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/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

  • keyutils-libs-1.4-5.el6.i686.rpm
  • keyutils-debuginfo-1.4-5.el6.s390x.rpm
  • keyutils-debuginfo-1.4-5.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • keyutils-libs-devel-1.4-5.el6.i686.rpm
  • keyutils-libs-1.4-5.el6.s390x.rpm
  • keyutils-libs-1.4-5.el6.ppc.rpm
  • keyutils-1.4-5.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • keyutils-libs-1.4-5.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • keyutils-debuginfo-1.4-5.el6.i686.rpm
  • keyutils-libs-1.4-5.el6.s390.rpm
  • keyutils-1.4-5.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • keyutils-debuginfo-1.4-5.el6.ppc.rpm
  • keyutils-libs-devel-1.4-5.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • keyutils-debuginfo-1.4-5.el6.s390.rpm
  • keyutils-libs-1.4-5.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • keyutils-debuginfo-1.4-5.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • keyutils-libs-devel-1.4-5.el6.s390x.rpm
  • keyutils-libs-devel-1.4-5.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • keyutils-1.4-5.el6.s390x.rpm
  • keyutils-1.4-5.el6.src.rpm
  • keyutils-1.4-5.el6.i686.rpm
  • keyutils-libs-devel-1.4-5.el6.ppc.rpm
  • keyutils-libs-devel-1.4-5.el6.s390.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information