Issued:
2015-03-30
Updated:
2016-05-09

RHBA-2015:0755 - pinentry bug fix update

Synopsis

pinentry bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated pinentry packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The pinentry packages contain a collection of simple personal identification number (PIN) or password entry dialogs, which utilize the Assuan protocol as described by the Project Aegypten. The pinentry packages also contain the command line version of the PIN entry dialog.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • Due to an auto-detection problem, the pinentry wrapper in some cases attempted to launch the pinentry-gtk program even if it was not installed. The pinentry wrapper has been updated, and the problem no longer occurs. (BZ#662770)

  • Due to lack of UTF-8 support, the output description text got scrambled when the "pinentry getpin" command was used. The same problem could occur when using the GNU Privacy Guard utility that called the "pinentry getpin" command on a key containing non-ASCII characters in its name. To fix this bug, proper UTF-8 translation has been performed, and the pinentry-curses binary file has been compiled against the ncursesw library, which contains wide character support. As a result, the output text is now correct. (BZ#704495)

Users of pinentry 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.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

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 - Retired Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
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

  • pinentry-gtk-0.7.6-8.el6.i686.rpm
  • pinentry-gtk-0.7.6-8.el6.s390x.rpm
  • pinentry-0.7.6-8.el6.s390x.rpm
  • pinentry-qt-0.7.6-8.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • pinentry-0.7.6-8.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • pinentry-0.7.6-8.el6.i686.rpm
  • pinentry-debuginfo-0.7.6-8.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • pinentry-qt4-0.7.6-8.el6.i686.rpm
  • pinentry-debuginfo-0.7.6-8.el6.s390x.rpm
  • pinentry-gtk-0.7.6-8.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • pinentry-gtk-0.7.6-8.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • pinentry-qt4-0.7.6-8.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • pinentry-qt-0.7.6-8.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • pinentry-qt-0.7.6-8.el6.i686.rpm
  • pinentry-qt4-0.7.6-8.el6.s390x.rpm
  • pinentry-debuginfo-0.7.6-8.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • pinentry-qt-0.7.6-8.el6.s390x.rpm
  • pinentry-qt4-0.7.6-8.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • pinentry-0.7.6-8.el6.src.rpm
  • pinentry-debuginfo-0.7.6-8.el6.i686.rpm
  • pinentry-0.7.6-8.el6.ppc64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information