6.1 Technical Notes


Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Technical Release Documentation

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Abstract

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 Technical Notes list and document the changes made to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 operating system and its accompanying applications between Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 and minor release Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1.
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 Technical Notes list and document the changes made to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 operating system and its accompanying applications between Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 and minor release Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1.
For system administrators and others planning Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 upgrades and deployments, the Technical Notes provide a single, organized record of the bugs fixed in, features added to, and Technology Previews included with this new release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
For auditors and compliance officers, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 Technical Notes provide a single, organized source for change tracking and compliance testing.
For every user, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 Technical Notes provide details of what has changed in this new release.

Note

Previous versions of the Technical Notes contained a Package Manifest appendix. The Package Manifest is now available as a seperate document.

1. Package Updates

Important

The Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Technical Notes compilations for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0, 6.1 and 6.2 have been republished.
Each compilation still lists all advisories comprising their respective GA release, including all Fastrack advisories.
To more accurately represent the advisories released between minor updates of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, however, some advisories released asynchronously between minor releases have been relocated.
Previously, these asynchronously released advisories were published in the Technical Notes for the most recent Red Hat Enterprise Linux minor upate. Asynchronous advisories released after the release of Red Enterprise Linux 6.1 and before the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 were published in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Technical Notes, for example.
Most of these asynchronous advisories were concerned with, or even specific to, the then extant Red Hat Enterprise Linux release, however.
With these republished Technical Notes, such advisories are now incorporated into the Technical Notes for the Red Hat Enterprise Linux release they are associated with.
Future Red Hat Enterprise Linux Technical Notes will follow this pattern. On first publication a Red Hat Enterprise Linux X.y Technical Notes compilation will include the advisories comprising that release along with the Fastrack advisories for the release.
Upon the GA of the succeeding Red Hat Enterprise Linux release, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux X.y Technical Notes compilation will be republished to include associated asynchronous advisories released since Red Hat Enterprise Linux X.y GA up until the GA of the successive release.

1.1. 389-ds-base

Updated 389-ds-base packages that fix multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
389 Directory Server is an LDAPv3 compliant server. The base package includes the LDAP server and command-line utilities for server administration.

Bug Fixes

BZ#701554
Password changes did not replicate because the method used to pass the changes to consumer servers was rejected on the consumer. This issue has been corrected, and password changes now replicate as expected.
BZ#701556
Values could be lost when group memberships were synchronized between 389 Directory Server and Active Directory with the Windows Sync feature. The synchronization and modify operations have been altered to prevent this issue, allowing group updates to synchronize with Active Directory.
BZ#701558
The ldclt command-line testing tool crashed during LDAP ADD operations because an LDAP attribute was not set correctly, preventing the creation of entries that did not already exist. This update allows the LDAP ADD to proceed correctly.
BZ#701559
The server crashed if a long running task was started using the cn=tasks,cn=config interface and then the server was shut down before the task completed. This update prevents the server from crashing, but does not gracefully terminate the task, which can leave the server database in an inconsistent state. For example, the fixup-memberof.pl script invokes a tasks to fix up the memberOf attribute in group member entries. If the server is shut down before the task can complete, some entries may not have the correct memberOf values. Users should ensure that tasks are complete before shutting down the server to avoid inconsistency.
BZ#701560
When using the Entry USN feature, deleting an entry caused a memory leak via the entryusn attribute. This update fixes the memory leak.
All 389-ds-base users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which addresses these issues.

1.2. abrt

Updated abrt packages that resolve several issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The abrt package provides the Automatic Bug Reporting Tool.
The abrt package has been upgraded to upstream version 1.1.16, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#650975)
Bug Fixes
BZ#576866
Prior to this update, the ABRT GUI did not warn the user when it could not connect to the Gnome keyring daemon (that is, could not save any of the user's settings). With this update, a warning message is displayed in such a case.
BZ#614486
The previous version of ABRT did not properly restore the core_pattern parameter (which is used to specify a coredump file pattern name) if it was too long. This update restores the core_pattern parameter to its previous value when the abrt daemon is stopped.
BZ#623142
If the TAINT_HARDWARE_UNSUPPORTED flag, which detecs hardware not officially supported by Red Hat, is set (in the /proc/sys/kernel/taint file), ABRT indicates that the flag is set in the created crash report.
BZ#649309
The abrt-addon-ccpp plugin crashed due to a segmentation fault if the /proc/[PID]/ directory did not exist. With this update, ABRT no longer crashes in case the /proc/[PID]/ directory does not exist.
BZ#665405
Content from various files in the /var/log/ directory is now included in the creation of an sosreport (which is created via the abrt-plugin-sosreport plugin).
BZ#666267
Prior to this update, the "Help" button in the ABRT GUI displayed the "About" window. With this update, a proper help page is displayed.
BZ#668875
Occasionally, ABRT did not send an attached core dump file along with a crash report. This was due to the large size of the core dump file which was consequently rejected by the server which was receiving the crash report. With this update, attachments and their sizes are listed in the crash report, making it easier to detect any problems caused by the large size of the attachments.
BZ#670492
Previously, ABRT was using "Strata-Message:" headers in server responses. However, servers no longer use these headers. With this update, the aforementioned headers are no longer used by ABRT.
BZ#678724
By default, in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, ABRT did not enable any reporters, causing environments which do not run an X server to not be notified of any crashes ABRT detected. With this update, the mailx plugin is enabled as the default reporter for every crash and the root user is now notified of any crashes via the root@localhost mailbox.
BZ#694410
The duplicate hash of a crash was computed from the package NVR (Name, Version, Release), path of the executable and the backtrace hash. This caused the hash to be different for the same bug which occurred in two versions of the same package. With this update, the component name and the backtrace hash are used when computing the duplicate hash.
All users of abrt are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

1.3. acroread

Updated acroread packages that resolve an issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Adobe Reader allows users to view and print documents in Portable Document Format (PDF).
Bug Fix
BZ#680202
With a recent update, the OpenLDAP libraries have been moved to different directory. This update changes the way Adobe Reader links to these libraries.
All users of acroread are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve this issue.

1.4. anaconda

An updated anaconda package that fixes several bugs and adds various enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The anaconda package contains portions of the Anaconda installation program that can be run by the user for reconfiguration and advanced installation options.
Bug Fixes
BZ#593642
Auto-partitioning no longer clears immutable partitions.
BZ#593984
Anaconda no longer creates a new EFI system partition when one is not needed.
BZ#601862, BZ#614812
Anaconda now properly detects ext2's dirty/clean states.
BZ#609570
Anaconda no longer forgets IP method selection in the loader when returning to a previous menu.
BZ#611825
The "Proxy password" field in stage 2 now correctly displays asterisks instead of plain text.
BZ#612476
Text mode now allows IPv6 configuration.
BZ#626025
Anaconda no longer displays free regions of less than 1MB in extended partitions.
BZ#671017
Anaconda no longer loses focus on certain screens.
BZ#634655
".treeinfo" files are now properly fetched over a proxy.
BZ#635201
Anaconda now writes correct NFS (Network File System) repository information into the summary Kickstart file.
BZ#638734
The /boot/ directory can now reside on an ext4 partition.
BZ#654360
Anaconda no longer fails to detect a disk if its size exceeds 1TB.
BZ#678028
Anaconda is once again able to detect the file system on a previously-created RAID device.
BZ#692350
Anaconda now generates the correct, FIPS-enabled initramfs (initial RAM file system) when the kernel option "fips=1" is provided on the kernel command line.
BZ#640260
Anaconda incorrectly failed with a traceback when an attempt to unpack a driver disk to a pre-existing root partition.
BZ#676854
Fingerprint authentication has been disabled on IBM System z because it is not supported on that platform.
BZ#641324
Static IPv4 configuration is now used when requested in stage 2: Anaconda no longer falls back to using DHCP.
BZ#652874
Anaconda is now able to properly detect an md RAID array with a spare disk.
BZ#636533
Anaconda now correctly reports an error when a network-based certificate is specified in Kickstart with no networking setup.
BZ#621490
A custom value is now properly honored when shrinking a file system.
BZ#702430
The "list-harddrives" command output for CCISS devices is now valid input for Kickstart files.
BZ#683891
Anaconda now selects the new kernel after upgrade.
Enhancements
BZ#442980, BZ#529443
This update adds the cnic, bnx2i, and be2net drivers for better iSCSI support.
BZ#633307, 633319
This update adds drivers for the Emulex 10GbE PCI-E Gen2 and Chelsio T4 10GbE network adapters.
BZ#554874
Algorithms from the SHA-2 hash function family can now be used to encrypt the boot loader password.
BZ#607827
Anaconda now allows a username and password to be entered for iSCSI Discovery sessions.
BZ#354432, 614399
The "rdate", "which", "tty" and "ntpdate" commands have been added to the install image.
BZ#663411
The graphical installer now runs using the full display resolution.
BZ#667122, BZ#599042, BZ#678574
Anaconda now features improved SSL certificate-handling.
BZ#621349
It is now possible to specify additional packages when using the "@packages --default" Kickstart option.
BZ#618376
On IBM System z, the /boot/ directory can now be placed on an LVM logical volume.
BZ#644535
Anaconda now supports blacklisting to determine which modules can be loaded during installation.
Users are advised to upgrade to this updated anaconda package, which resolves these issues and adds these enhancements.

1.5. apr

Updated apr packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
The Apache Portable Runtime (APR) is a portability library used by the Apache HTTP Server and other projects. It provides a free library of C data structures and routines.

Security Fix

CVE-2011-1928
The fix for CVE-2011-0419 (released via RHSA-2011:0507) introduced an infinite loop flaw in the apr_fnmatch() function when the APR_FNM_PATHNAME matching flag was used. A remote attacker could possibly use this flaw to cause a denial of service on an application using the apr_fnmatch() function.
Note: This problem affected httpd configurations using the "Location" directive with wildcard URLs. The denial of service could have been triggered during normal operation; it did not specifically require a malicious HTTP request.
This update also addresses additional problems introduced by the rewrite of the apr_fnmatch() function, which was necessary to address the CVE-2011-0419 flaw.
All apr users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. Applications using the apr library, such as httpd, must be restarted for this update to take effect.

1.6. at

An updated at package that fixes bugs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
At and batch read commands from standard input or from a specified file. At allows you to specify that a command will be run at a particular time. Batch will execute commands when the system load levels drop to a particular level. Both commands use /bin/sh.
Bug Fixes
BZ#589099
Previously, the at daemon (atd) wrongly contained permissions 0755 for atd configuration. With this update, atd has the correct permissions 0644 as have all other such files.
BZ#615104
Previously, the initscript caused the "OK" message to be printed twice. With this update, the initscript behaves as expected and does no longer cause echos of messages.
BZ#630019
Previously, the PIE label was not compiled with -fpie/-fPIE. This update adds a PIE compile option for secure positions independently executable on targets.
All users of at are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves this issue.

1.7. authconfig

Updated authconfig packages that fix several bugs and add an enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The authconfig package contains a command line utility and a GUI application that can configure a workstation to be a client for certain network user information and authentication schemes and other user information and authentication related options.
The authconfig package has been upgraded to upstream version 6.1.12, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. This version also adds new options: "--enableforcelegacy" and "--disableforcelegacy". These options allow the user to use legacy LDAP and Kerberos user identity and authentication modules instead of the SSSD modules. (BZ#655910)
Bug Fixes
BZ#595261
Prior to this update, authconfig unnecessarily restarted the user information and authentication services even though there were no configuration changes that would require the restart. With this update, services are no longer restarted unless explicitly required.
BZ#620475
The authentication configuration utility did not keep the "Require smart card for login" check box set when Kerberos was also enabled. When the check box was checked and the configuration was saved with the "Apply" button, the system would correctly require smart card for login. However, on the subsequent run of the authentication configuration utility the check box would be unchecked again and it was necessary to check it again to keep the option switched on. With this update, the "Require smart card for login" stays checked even after subsequent runs of the authentication configuration utility.
BZ#621632
The authentication configuration tool GUI incorrectly duplicated its window when the "Revert" button was pressed. This update fixes the duplicity problem.
BZ#624159
In some cases, when multiple configuration files with the same configuration settings contained different configuration values for a setting, the configuration files contents were not properly synchronized with authconfig. With this update, the synchronization works as expected.
BZ#639747
The authentication configuration tool GUI allowed to choose user identity and authentication schemes which require packages that are not installed on the system by default. With this update, certain identity and authentication schemes cannot be configured when they are not installed on the system.
BZ#663882
The authconfig textual user interface incorrectly required the nss-pam-ldap package to be installed when the configuration used SSSD for LDAP user identification. With this update, the nss-pam-ldap package is not required in such a case.
BZ#674844
Prior to this update, the authentication configuration tool overwrote the cache_credentials value to "True" in the SSSD configuration file (/etc/sssd/sssd.conf) if the configuration allowed using SSSD for the network user information and authentication services. With this update, the "cache_credentials" parameter is no longer overwritten in the aforementioned case.
BZ#676333
The "system-config-authentication" command crashed when executed in an environment without the X server running. With this update, a proper error message is printed in the aforementioned case.
Users are advised to upgrade to these updated authconfig packages, which resolve these issues and add this enhancement.

1.8. audit

Updated audit packages that fix bugs and provide enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The audit packages contain the user space utilities for storing and searching the audit records which have been generated by the audit subsystem in the Linux 2.6 kernel.
The audit packages are have been upgraded to upstream version 2.1. (BZ#584981) This upgrade provides the following bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version:
  • autrace now uses the correct syscalls on i386 systems
  • Added support for new event types related to virtualization, netfilter, the mmap syscall, key based authentication, and cryptographic session establishment.
  • Updated syscall tables for the 2.6.37 kernel.
  • Updated sample rules for new syscalls and packages.
  • The overflow_action configuration item was added to audisp-remote to allow configurable actions for remote logging queue overflows.
  • A new option in the audisp-syslog plug-in to send syslog audit events to local[0-7]

Bug Fixes

BZ#670938
System processes — that is processes with an audit id (auid) of -1 — are logged by the audit subsystem. However, if the ausearch utility was used to locate events where the auid was -1, it would display all events. In this update, under these circumstances, ausearch only returns events with an auid of -1.
BZ#688664
A value of 'syslog' for the 'disk_error_action' parameter in 'auditd.conf' instructs auditd to issue a warning to syslog if an error is encountered when writing audit events to disk. If 'disk_error_action' was set to 'syslog', auditd always attempted to exec() a child process. Consequently, if a disk error was encountered (ie. a disk full error), auditd would attempt to exec() a null child process, and logging would not resume after the disk error was reported to syslog. In this update the child process is not called when the 'syslog' option is used, and logging continues as expected.
BZ#695605
Previously if an audispd plug-in was restarted, the plug-in was not marked as active. Consequently, the remote logging plug-in (audisp-remote) was unable to bind to a privileged port on reconnect because all privileges had been dropped. In these updated packages, audispd plug-ins are marked as active after being restarted, and the audisp-remote plug-in functions as expected.
BZ#697463
Previously, the "autrace -r" command on the IBM System z architecture attempted to audit network syscalls not available on IBM System z. Consequently, an error similar to the following might have been returned:
Error inserting audit rule for pid=13163
With this update, "autrace -r" is now aware of system calls not available on this architecture, which resolves this issue.
BZ#640948
When an ignore directive was included in an audit.rules configuration file, the auditctl utility became unresponsive when attempting to load those rules. With this update, the issue is resolved.
BZ#647128
Previously, the audit_encode_nv_string() function was not checking if the memory allocation (malloc) it was performing succeeded. Consequently, if the malloc operation encountered an out of memory (OOM) error, audit_encode_nv_string() crashed attempting to reference a NULL pointer. With this update, audit_encode_nv_string() checks if the malloc is successful, which resolves this issue.
BZ#647131
Previously, the man page for the "audit_encode_nv_string" function incorrectly documented the return value type as an "int". The man page for "audit_encode_nv_string" now correctly displays return value type for the "audit_encode_nv_string" function as a "char *"
All audit users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues and add these enhancements.

1.9. autofs

An updated autofs package that fixes numerous bugs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The autofs utility controls the operation of the automount daemon. The automount daemon automatically mounts file systems when you use them, and unmounts them when they are not busy.
Bug Fixes
BZ#629480
When using client certificates with autofs, the certificate DN could not be used in LDAP ACLs. This prevented autofs from authenticating via SASL external. With this update, the SASL EXTERNAL authentication mechanism is used for mapping the certificate DN to an LDAP DN, allowing autofs to support SASL External authentication via TLS.
BZ#616426
The autfs initscript did not implement the functions force-reload and try-restart. Instead, the error try-restart and force-reload service action not supported was given and returned 3. This patch adds these initscript options so that the they are now implement and return appropriate values.
BZ#629359
Debugging output from autofs did not include IP addresses for mounts alongside hostname information which made it difficult to debug issues when using round-robin DNS. This update adds this feature, allowing logging output to show the IP address of a mount, rather than just the host name.
BZ#572608
Previously, automount woke up once per second to check for any scheduled tasks, despite the fact that adding a task triggered a wake up of that thread, which lead to a tight loop which used excessive CPU. This update removes these unnecessary wakeups.
BZ#520844
When an autofs map entry had multiple host names associated with it, there was no way to override the effect of the network proximity. This was a problem when a need existed to be able to rely on selection strictly by weight. With this patch, the server response time is also taken into consideration when selecting a server for the target of the mount. The pseudo option --use-weight-only was added that can only be used with master map entries or with individual map entries in order to provide this. For individual map entries, the option no-use-weight-only can also be used to override the master map option.
BZ#666340
If there were characters that matched isspace() (such as \t and \n) in a passed map entry key and there was no space in the key, these character were not properly preserved, which led to failed or incorrect mounts. This was caused by an incorrect attempt at optimization by using a check to see if a space was present in the passed key and only then processing each character of the key individually, escaping any isspace() characters. This patch adds a check for isspace() characters to the same check for a space, eliminating the problem.
BZ#630954
If the map type was explicitly specified for a map, then the map was not properly updated when a re-read was requested. This was because the map stale flag was incorrectly cleared after the lookup module read the map, instead of at the completion of the update procedure. In this patch, the map stale flag should only be cleared if the map read fails for some reason, otherwise it updates when the refresh is completed.
BZ#650009
Previously, when autofs was restarted with active mounts, due to a possible recursion when mounting multi-mount map entries, autofs would block indefinitely. This was caused by a cache readlock which was held when calling mount_subtree() from parse_mount () in parse_sun.c. This patch fixes remount locking which resolves the issue.
BZ#577099
The master map DN string parsing is quite strict and, previously, autofs could not use an automount LDAP DN using the l (localityName) attribute. This patch adds the allowable attribute 'l', the locality.
BZ#700691
A previous bug fix caused the state queue manager thread to stop processing events, and mounts expired and then stopped. This was caused when the state queue task manager transferred an automount point pending task to its task queue for execution. The state queue was then mistakenly being seen as empty when the completing task was the only task in the state queue. This patch adds a check to allow the queue manager thread to continue, resolving the issue.
BZ#700697
The autofs gave a segmentation fault on the next null cache look up in the auto.master file. This was due to a regression issue, where a function to clean the null map entry cache, added to avoid a race when re-reading the master map, mistakenly failed to clear the hash bracket array entries. This patch sets the hash bracket array entries to NULL, resolving the issue.
All users of autofs are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which provide numerous bug fixes.

1.10. avahi

Updated avahi packages that fix one security issue and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
Avahi is an implementation of the DNS Service Discovery and Multicast DNS specifications for Zero Configuration Networking. It facilitates service discovery on a local network. Avahi and Avahi-aware applications allow you to plug your computer into a network and, with no configuration, view other people to chat with, view printers to print to, and find shared files on other computers.

Security Fix

CVE-2011-1002
A flaw was found in the way the Avahi daemon (avahi-daemon) processed Multicast DNS (mDNS) packets with an empty payload. An attacker on the local network could use this flaw to cause avahi-daemon on a target system to enter an infinite loop via an empty mDNS UDP packet.
Bug Fix
BZ#629954, BZ#684276
Previously, the avahi packages in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 were not compiled with standard RPM CFLAGS; therefore, the Stack Protector and Fortify Source protections were not enabled, and the debuginfo packages did not contain the information required for debugging. This update corrects this issue by using proper CFLAGS when compiling the packages.
All users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct these issues. After installing the update, avahi-daemon will be restarted automatically.

1.11. bash

Updated bash packages that fix three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Bash (Bourne-again shell) is the default shell for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Bug Fixes
BZ#618289
When using arithmetic evaluation on an associative array with integer values, an attempt to provide an invalid subscript caused Bash to terminate unexpectedly with a segmentation fault. This update applies a patch that corrects this error, and providing an invalid subscript no longer causes the bash interpreter to crash.
BZ#664468
Prior to this update, the Bash interpreter reported broken pipe errors for both external and built-in commands. Since these errors are only relevant for external commands, this update adapts the underlying source code to suppress the broken pipe error messages for built-in commands. As a result, only relevant messages are now presented to user.
BZ#619704
Previous version of the bash(1) manual page did not provide a clear description of the "break", "continue", and "suspend" built-in commands. This update corrects this error, and extends the manual page to provide accurate and complete descriptions of these commands.
All users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

1.12. bfa-firmware

An updated bfa-firmware package that fixes several bugs and adds various enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The bfa-firmware package contains the Brocade Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapter (HBA) Firmware to run Brocade Fibre Channel and CNA adapters. This package also supports the Brocade BNA network adapter.
The bfa-firmware package has been upgraded to upstream version 2.3.2.3, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#617017)
All users of Brocade Fibre Channel and CNA adapters are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes several bugs and adds various enhancements.

1.13. bind

Updated bind and bind97 packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols. BIND includes a DNS server (named); a resolver library (routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS); and tools for verifying that the DNS server is operating correctly.

Security fix

CVE-2011-1910
An off-by-one flaw was found in the way BIND processed negative responses with large resource record sets (RRSets). An attacker able to send recursive queries to a BIND server that is configured as a caching resolver could use this flaw to cause named to exit with an assertion failure.
All BIND users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve this issue. After installing the update, the BIND daemon (named) will be restarted automatically.
Updated bind and bind97 packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols. BIND includes a DNS server (named); a resolver library (routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS); and tools for verifying that the DNS server is operating correctly.

Security Fix

CVE-2011-2464
A flaw was discovered in the way BIND handled certain DNS requests. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send a specially-crafted DNS request packet to BIND, causing it to exit unexpectedly due to a failed assertion.
Users of bind97 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, and bind on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve this issue. After installing the update, the BIND daemon (named) will be restarted automatically.
Updated bind packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols. BIND includes a DNS server (named); a resolver library (routines for applications to use when interfacing with DNS); and tools for verifying that the DNS server is operating correctly.

Security Fix

CVE-2011-4313
A flaw was discovered in the way BIND handled certain DNS queries, which caused it to cache an invalid record. A remote attacker could use this flaw to send repeated queries for this invalid record, causing the resolvers to exit unexpectedly due to a failed assertion.
Users of bind are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve this issue. After installing the update, the BIND daemon (named) will be restarted automatically.
Updated bind packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) is an implementation of the Domain Name System (DNS) protocols. BIND includes a DNS server (named), a resolver library (routines applications use when interfacing with DNS), and tools for verifying that the DNS server is operating correctly.
The bind package have been upgraded to upstream version 9.7.3., which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. For more information, refer to the bind release notes. (BZ#653486)
Bug Fixes
BZ#623638
previously, bind on the 64-bit PowerPC architecture used emulated atomic operations rather than native instructions. In this updated package bind on the 64-bit PowerPC architecture uses the same native atomic operations as the PowerPC architecture.
BZ#677381
previously, the bind package generated the /etc/rndc.key file. However, generating this file used entropy from /dev/random. Consequently, installation of the bind package might have hung. The rndc.key is used by rndc utility for advanced administration commands and is no longer automatically generated during installation of the bind package. Users requiring the rndc utility should generate key themselves, via the "rndc-confgen -a" command.
BZ#623122
under certain circumstances, "named" was entering a deadlock. Consequently, "named" could not be stopped using the "/etc/init.d/named stop". In this updated package, the deadlock no longer occurs, resolving this issue.
BZ#623190
previously, the named_sdb PostgreSQL database backend failed to reconnect to the database when the connection failed during named_sdb startup. With this update, named writes error message to the system log and tries to reconnect during every lookup.
BZ#658045
previously, file conflicts prevented the i686 and x86_64 versions of bind-devel from being installed on the same machine. In this update, the file conflict is resolved and both the i686 and x86_64 bind-devel packages can be installed on the same system.
BZ#622785
previously, initscript killed all processes with the name "named" when stopping the named daemon. With this update, initscript kills only the selected one.
BZ#640538
the return codes of the "dig" utility are documented in the dig man page.
BZ#660676
previously the named.8 manpage mentioned the system-config-bind utility. This utility is not included with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. The man page is updated to remove the reference to the system-config-bind utility.
BZ#661663, BZ#672777
the "status" action of the named initscript would not complete when bind-sdb package was installed. These updated packages resolve this issue.
BZ#669163
when resolv.conf contained "search" keyword with no arguments host/nslookup/dig utilities failed to parse it correctly. In these updated packages, such lines are ignored.
BZ#672819
previously, the nsupdate man page incorrectly listed HMAC-MD5 as the only TSIG algorithm. In this updated package, the list of encryption algorithms was removed from the nsupdate man page. The the dnssec-keygen man page contains a complete list of usable encryption algorithms.
Enhancements
BZ#622764
the host utility now honors "debug", "attempts" and "timeout" options in resolv.conf.
BZ#623673
a new option, called DISABLE_ZONE_CHECKING, has been added to /etc/sysconfig/named. This option adds the possibility to bypass zone validation via the named-checkzone utility in initscript and allows to start named with misconfigured zones.
BZ#646932
with this update, size, MD5 and the modification time of /etc/sysconfig/named configuration file is no longer checked via the "rpm -V bind" command.
BZ#667375
Root zone DNSKEY is now included in the bind package, in the /etc/named.root.key file.
Users are advised to upgrade to these updated bind packages, which resolve these issues and add these enhancements.

1.14. bind-dyndb-ldap

An updated bind-dyndb-ldap package that fixes several bugs and adds several enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The dynamic LDAP back-end is a plug-in for BIND that provides an LDAP database back-end capabilities. It features support for dynamic updates and internal caching, to lift the load off of your LDAP server.
Bug Fixes
BZ#658286
the plugin didn't load child zones correctly. The plugin has been fixed and now loads child zones well.
BZ#662930
named aborted when attempting to connect to a local LDAP server during boot. Now it does not abort but the administrator must call "rndc reload" when LDAP server starts to correctly fetch zones.
BZ#666244
the plugin flooded logs with too many messages. Now those messages are logged only when named is started with the "-d" (debug) parameter.
BZ#667704
the plugin was rebased to 0.2.0 bugfix release.
BZ#667727
queries for ANY type were not handled correctly, only SOA records were returned. The plugin was fixed and now all records are returned when asked.
BZ#667730
the plugin failed to reconnect to the LDAP server when SASL authentication was used. The plugin was fixed and reconnection now works.
BZ#667732
the plugin failed to delete nodes from the LDAP database when all resource records associated with the node were removed. Now the plugin deletes the empty nodes.
BZ#667733
the plugin did not emit enough information when it was configured to use invalid credentials. Now it emits enough details.
Enhancements
BZ#667729
It is now possible to specify allow-query and allow-transfer ACLs for zones.
BZ#667734
It is now possible to set timeout for queries to the LDAP server.
Users are advised to upgrade to this updated bind-dyndb-ldap package, which resolves these issues.

1.15. binutils

Updated binutils packages that fix bugs and add various enhancements are now available.
Binutils is a collection of binary utilities, including ar (for creating, modifying and extracting from archives), as (a family of GNU assemblers), gprof (for displaying call graph profile data), ld (the GNU linker), nm (for listing symbols from object files), objcopy (for copying and translating object files), objdump (for displaying information from object files), ranlib (for generating an index for the contents of an archive), readelf (for displaying detailed information about binary files), size (for listing the section sizes of an object or archive file), strings (for listing printable strings from files), strip (for discarding symbols), and addr2line (for converting addresses to file and line).
Bug Fixes
BZ#697703
fix occasional crash in linker
BZ#614443
fix strip to keep the address of an empty section consistent with its offset in the object
BZ#680143
if one of the input files is of a non-ELF format the linker may crash
Enhancements
BZ#578661
add support for ELF objects with more then 65535 program headers
BZ#663587
add support for the large code model on PowerPC
BZ#633448
add support for ELF core dump notes sections for extra s390 registers
BZ#631540
add support for the new instructions in the System
Users are advised to upgrade to these updated binutils packages, which resolve these issues.
An updated binutils package that fixes one bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The binutils package is a collection of programming tools for the manipulation of object code in various object file formats.
Bug Fix
BZ#721079
Prior to this update, an input object file could have a non-empty .toc section but no references to the .toc entries because of a problem in the 64-bit PowerPC linker TOC editing code. As a result, various utilities of the binutils package terminated unexpectedly with a segmentation fault under certain conditions. This update handles local symbols in .toc sections correctly. Now, no more crashes occur.
Users of binutils are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes this bug.

1.16. blktrace

Updated blktrace packages that fix numerous bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The blktrace packages contain a number of utilities to record the I/O trace information for the kernel to user space, and utilities to analyze and view the trace information. This includes:
  • blktrace (to extract event traces from the kernel)
  • blkparse (to produce formatted output of event streams)
  • blkiomon (for i/o monitoring - periodically generating per-device request size and request latency statistics, and providing histograms)
  • btreplay (for recreating IO loads recorded by blktrace)
  • btt (to analyse block i/o traces produces by blktrace)
Bug Fixes
BZ#583615
When the device list contained the same device as supplied on the command line, blktrace stopped immediately and further I/O tracing was impossible. This occurred when an error returned in BLKTRACESETUP ioctl caused the program to terminate whenever a device was duplicated in the devpaths. This patch ensures devices are not duplicated in the devpaths pool, thus fixing the problem.
BZ#619201
When blktrace was run without parameters, it incorrectly included the version number in its usage message. This resulted in the false assumption that the version number was a required parameter. This update edits the usage message so that the version number is not printed when running blktrace, blkparce or btt without parameters, avoiding any confusion.
BZ#650229
Previously, btreplay would give a 'No such file or directory' error when attempting to execute with /dev/cciss/foo because of the long path name. This was caused by missing the back conversion of underscores to slashes. This update converts the underscores to slashes to restore the device names with longer paths.
BZ#583624
Running 'blktrace -d <device> -k' once did not kill a running background trace. Running it a second time resulted in a 'BLKTRACETEARDOWN: Invalid argument' message, after which any further attempt to run it returned 'BLKTRACESETUP: No such file or directory'. This was caused by the option -k clobbering information about running a trace by the kernel (that is, blk_trace_remove), while files opened in debugfs by blktrace running in the background were not released. In this patch, the documentation is updated to remove the faulty 'kill' option. It advices to send a SIGINT signal via kill(1) to the running background blktrace for its correct termination.
BZ#650243
The documentation falsely gave the impression that blkiomon was not giving the correct output when working with a logical volume device. When working on a logical volume device, blkiomon does not understand the output of blktrace,as a logical volume device is quiet. While working with a physical device, it prints I/O statistics as expected. This patch updates the documentation to reflect this.
BZ#583695
When blkparse was run with a non-existent file as an argument, it returned no errors and the exit-code was zero. This update provides a warning message when a non-existent file is used as an argument and exits with a non-zero status.
BZ#595356
Previously, blktrace would not end after 30 seconds. Instead it would remain running until the user killed it, after which any further attempts to run it failed with an error. This was because when open_ios() failed, tracer_wait_unblock() in thread_main() waits for an event that will never occur. Because the event never occurs, any future attempts to run blktrace failed with an error. This update makes sure that unblock_tracers() is also called when an unsuccessful event occurs, (that is, when nthreads_running != ncpus).
BZ#595413
There was a mistake in the man page for btrecord. It incorrectly documented the option --input-base, which is unsupported, and the supported --max-bunch-time was undocumented. This update replaces --input-base with --input-directory, and adds the option --max-bunch to the btrecord man page.
BZ#595419
The blkiomon man page was missing elements. The options -d and --dump-lldd were not recorded. This patch adds these and a drv_data mast description to the blktrace man page.
BZ#595615
The blkparce man page was missing six elements. These were -A, --set-mask, -a, --act-mask, -D, and --input-directory. These options are now added to the blkparce man page.
BZ#595620
The blktrace man page was missing sixteen elements. These were:
  • -d <dev> | --dev=<dev>
  • -r <debugfs path> | --relay=<debugfs path>
  • -o <file> | --output=<file>
  • -D <dir> | --output-dir=<dir>
  • -w <time> | --stopwatch=<time>
  • -a <action field> | --act-mask=<action field>
  • -A <action mask> | --set-mask=<action mask>
  • -b <size> | --buffer-size
  • -n <number> | --num-sub-buffers=<number>
  • -l | --listen
  • -h <hostname> | --host=<hostname>
  • -p <port number> | --port=<port number>
  • -s | --no-sendfile
  • -I <devs file> | --input-devs=<devs file>
  • -v <version> | --versio
  • -V <version> | --version
These options are now added to the blktrace man page.
BZ#595623
The btreplay man page was missing three elements. These were -t, -x, and --acc-factor. These options are now added to the btreplay man page.
BZ#595628
The btt man page was missing four elements. These were -X, -m, --easy-parse-avgs, and --seeks-per-second. These options are now added to the btt man page.
All users of blktrace are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

1.17. boost

Updated boost packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries, with emphasis on libraries which work well with the C++ Standard Library.
Bug Fix
BZ#723503
Prior to this update, the cyclic redundancy check (CRC) was not correctly computed on 64-bit architectures during decompression of gzip archives. In this update, constant-width integer types are used to compute CRC to make the results stable across all architectures.
Users of Boost are advised to upgrade to these updated packages which fix this bug.

1.18. btrfs-progs

An updated btrfs-progs package that adds an enhancement is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The btrfs-progs package provides user-space programs to create, check, modify, and correct any inconsistencies in a Btrfs file system.
Enhancement
BZ#645741
The btrfs-progs package has been updated to the latest upstream version, and newly includes the btrfs utility for easier administration of Btrfs file systems.
All users of Btrfs are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which adds this enhancement.

1.19. busybox

Updated busybox packages that fixes several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Busybox is a single binary containing a large number of system commands, including a shell. This package can be useful for recovering from certain types of system failures, particularly those involving broken shared libraries.
Bug Fixes
BZ#615391
Previously, the cpio applet included with busybox printed summary messages to stdout instead of stderr as the stand alone cpio does. Consequently nothing was returned to the shell when the busybox cpio applet ran. The updated applet include a patch that corrects this: the busybox cpio applet now prints summary messages to stderr, returning information to the shell as the standalone utility does.
BZ#621853
As initially released, the "busybox hwclock" utility included with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 honored the current Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS 2.3) and assumed the adjtime state file was at /var/lib/hwclock/adjtime. If kexec was invoked to load a second kernel over a crashed kernel, this caused "busybox hwclock" to return incorrect and inconsistent values when compared with the same command running in the first kernel prior to the crash. With this update, the config file for busybox hwclock was reverted to its old behavior. It now assumes the adjtime state file is at /etc/adjtime, as was the case in FHS 2.1, and "busybox hwclock" behaves as expected when run in an initial or reloaded kernel.
BZ#633961
The "busybox awk" utility incorrectly treated all strings of digits with leading zeros as octal integer constants. This meant strings such as "0xffff" and "07777" were handled correctly but strings such as "0.531" were not. As a consequence, awk operations that correctly manipulated such strings as numbers were not handled correctly by busybox awk. With this update, the awk utility included with busybox correctly differentiates between hexadecimal and floating decimal strings and handles manipulations of the latter as expected.
All busybox users should install this update, which fixes these bugs.

1.20. ca-certificates

An updated ca-certificates package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact.
This package contains the set of CA certificates chosen by the Mozilla Foundation for use with the Internet Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).
It was found that a Certificate Authority (CA) issued fraudulent HTTPS certificates. This update removes that CA's root certificate from the ca-certificates package, rendering any HTTPS certificates signed by that CA as untrusted. (BZ#734381)
All users should upgrade to this updated package. After installing the update, all applications using the ca-certificates package must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

1.21. certmonger

An enhanced certmonger package that fixes various bugs and provides several enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The certmonger utility monitors certificate expiration and can refresh certificates with the CAs (Certifying Authorities) in networks that use public-key infrastructure (PKI).
The certmonger package has been upgraded to upstream version 0.34, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#643561)
Bug Fixes
BZ#624142
If the certmonger service failed to contact a CA, the subprocess that submitted the request became defunct. This occurred because the parent process did not read the subprocess status. With this update, the parent process reads the subprocess status and there is no defunct process after a CA contact failure.
BZ#636894
Previously, after installing the certmonger utility, the certmonger service failed to start. This occurred because the package installation did not signal the system bus daemon that it needed to re-read its configuration as to allow the certmonger daemon to connect to the bus. This update fixes the bug and the certmonger service can be started right after the installation.
BZ#652047
Previously, the certmonger utility did not display a user-friendly error message when the user ran the ipa-getcert command with privileges that were insufficient for the system bus to allow it to communicate with the certmonger service. With this update, certmonger suppresses the original error message if a user-friendly message is available. The user can display both messages with the -v option.
BZ#652049
Prior to this update, the ipa-getcert list command did not return any output if certmonger was not tracking any certificates. With this update, the command returns a message that the certificate list is empty.
BZ#687899
Due to inappropriate SELinux policy settings, the certmonger daemon could not execute some of its helper processes. The updated policy now allows certmonger to run these processes and the certmonger libraries create temporary files in a location that certmonger can access.
BZ#688229
The certmonger service accepted a non-existent PIN (Personal Identification Number) file for the NSS (Network Security Services) database if the user ran the ipa-getcert request command with the -p option. This occurred because certmonger failed to detect reading errors in the file with the PIN and proceeded with an empty PIN value. With this update, such reading errors are logged and certmonger proceeded as if it had read an empty PIN value.
BZ#689776
Previously, the certmonger service terminated unexpectedly if the user attempted to use a certificate database stored in a non-existent directory. While preparing an error message to return to its client, the daemon attempted to use already-freed memory, which could have caused a segmentation fault. With this update, certmonger displays a message that the directory does not exist and remains stable in these circumstances.
BZ#690886
After installation of the ipa-client package, the ipa-client-install script runs the ipa-getcert command. As a consequence, the certmonger daemon runs its ipa-submit helper. The helper contacts the IPA server. Previously, if it received a fault message response from the server, it terminated with a segmentation fault and created a core dump; the installation failed. This happened because it attempted to dereference an uninitialized pointer while processing the fault message. With this update, the helper handles the fault message correctly and the enrollment process completes successfully.
BZ#691351
Previously, running the getcert command with an invalid Extended Key Usage parameter caused a segmentation fault. This happened because the command attempted to dereference a NULL pointer while attempting to report that the parameter value was not a valid OID (Object Identifier). With this update, certmonger reports that the OID validation failed and prints a message that the provided Extended Key Usage is invalid.
BZ#695672
Prior to this update, certmonger could have seemingly ignored the attempts to resubmit a certificate with changed Subject and Principal names. This occurred because the certificate changes were not saved if a certificate with the same nickname already existed in the certificate database. With this update, the certmonger utility removes the certificates with the respective nickname before storing the new certificate and the resubmit command works as expected.
BZ#695675
Previously, the certmonger service could have failed to resubmit certificates. This happened if the SELinux policy did not allow certmonger to write to the defined location for storing keys. With this update, the service reads information about the keys to verify that the keys had been generated and stored properly. If the reading fails, the keys are generated again.
BZ#696185
Previously, the getcert tool terminated unexpectedly with a segmentation fault if the user issued the getcert start-tracking command with changed values of the parameters Extended Key Usage, DNS, Email and Principal name. The command caused a buffer overflow in the getcert tool because the internal buffer in the getcert command was too small to hold four new values. This update enlarges the internal buffer of the command and the bug no longer occurs.
Enhancements
BZ#624143
The ipa-getcert and getcert commands did not accept the location of a passphrase, which could provide the encrypted keying material and allow monitoring of an already-issued certificate or key pair. This update adds the -p and -P options to the getcert start-tracking command, which allows the user to pass the utility a PIN either in a file or directly.
BZ#683926
Previously, the certmonger service did not support a verbose mode for the ipa-getcert command. This update adds the --verbose option to the command.
All users of certmonger are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves these issues and provides these enhancements.
An updated certmonger package that fixes one bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The certmonger service monitors certificates, warning of their impending expiration, and optionally attempting to re-enroll with supported CAs (Certificate Authorities).
Bug Fix
BZ#729803
When submitting a signing request to a Red Hat IPA (Identity, Policy, Audit) CA, certmonger is expected to authenticate using the client's host credentials, and to delegate the client's credentials to the server. Recent updates to libraries on which certmonger depends changed delegation of client credentials from a mandatory operation to an optional operation that is no longer enabled by default, which effectively broke certmonger's support for IPA CAs. This update gives certmonger the ability to explicitly request credential delegation when used with newer versions of these libraries, which introduce an API that allows certmonger to explicitly request that credential delegation be performed.
All certmonger users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes this bug.

1.22. chkconfig

Updated chkconfig packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Update Support.
The basic system utility chkconfig updates and queries runlevel information for system services.
Bug Fixes
BZ#797844
When installing multiple Linux Standard Base (LSB) services which only had LSB headers, the stop priority of the related LSB init scripts could have been miscalculated and set to "-1". With this update, the LSB init script ordering mechanism has been fixed, and the stop priority of the LSB init scripts is now set correctly.
BZ#797843
When an LSB init script requiring the "$local_fs" facility was installed with the "install_initd" command, the installation of the script could fail under certain circumstances. With this update, the underlying code has been modified to ignore this requirement because the "$local_fs" facility is always implicitly provided. LSB init scripts with requirements on "$local_fs" are now installed correctly.
All users of chkconfig are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

1.23. cifs-utils

An updated cifs-utils package that fixes multiple bugs is available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The SMB/CIFS protocol is a standard file sharing protocol widely deployed on Microsoft Windows machines. This package contains tools for mounting shares on Linux using the SMB/CIFS protocol. The tools in this package work in conjunction with support in the kernel to allow one to mount a SMB/CIFS share onto a client and use it as if it were a standard Linux file system.
The cifs-utils package has been upgraded to upstream version 4.8.1, which provides a number of bug fixes over the previous version. (BZ#658981)

Bug Fixes

BZ#645127
While trying to mount a share (DFS or 'classic') with Kerberos, a "mount error(5): Input/output error" occurred due to a problem with the MIT krb5 libraries. cifs.upcall now sets the GSSAPI checksum properly in SPNEGO blobs. This is necessary for proper interoperability with EMC servers when using krb5 authentication, and allows for a successful mount .
BZ#667382
When mounting a share as root with kerberos, cifs.upcall used the ticket of root (/tmp/krb5cc_0) instead the one of the user specified with 'uid=' or 'user='. This was due to the --legacy-uid command line option for cifs.upcall not properly implementing. This patch ensures that it properly implements, allowing successful mounting of a share as root with kerberos.
BZ#669377
When two CIFS shares were mounted on the same server, each for a different user who had valid krb5 credentials, only the one mounted first could access the data. This was because cifs had a built in design limitation of a single set of credentials per mount. That limitation caused the implementation of a number of hacks to deal with it. With this patch mount.cifs now supports the 'cruid=' mount option, fixing this issue.
BZ#696951
mount.cifs did not handle numeric uid=, gid=, or cuid= options correctly, and would often return an error when they were specified. With this patch, a check is run to see if any error occurred by setting errno to 0 before the conversion. If one did then it will attempt to treat the value as a name, allowing them to be correctly handled.
All users who are using the cifs file system should update to this new package in order to take advantage of these bug fixes.

1.24. cluster and gfs2-utils

Updated cluster and gfs2-utils packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Update Support.
The Red Hat Cluster Manager is a collection of technologies working together to provide data integrity and the ability to maintain application availability in the event of a failure. Using redundant hardware, shared disk storage, power management, and robust cluster communication and application failover mechanisms, a cluster can meet the needs of the enterprise market.

Bug Fix

BZ#849047
Previously, it was not possible to specify start-up options to the dlm_controld daemon. As a consequence, certain features were not working as expected. With this update, it is possible to use the /etc/sysconfig/cman configuration file to specify dlm_controld start-up options, thus fixing this bug.
All users of cluster and gfs2-utils are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.
Updated cluster and gfs2-utils packages that fix multiple bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The cluster packages contain the core clustering libraries for Red Hat High Availability as well as utilities to maintain GFS2 file systems for users of Red Hat Resilient Storage.

Bug Fixes

BZ#688201
cman quorum timeout is too short
BZ#595725
CMAN init script race condition has been fixed
BZ#617306
plock owner synchronization has been fixed
BZ#623810
plocks are now ignored until they written to their checkpoint
BZ#623816
plock signatures are now re-sent after a new totem ring forms
BZ#624844
post_join_delay now works after a loss and subsequent regain of quorum
BZ#634718
"service cman stop remove" now functions correctly
BZ#639018
Active cluster nodes with higher configuration version numbers are no longer killed when they join the cluster
BZ#577874
The ccs_tool man page no longer shows 'update' and 'upgrade' subcommands
BZ#614885
ccs_tool cluster configuration editing has been dropped
BZ#617234
The interaction between corosync and cman restarting independently of one another has been improved
BZ#617247
reporting of corosync's exit code has been improved
BZ#619874
cman_tool manual page no longer talks about "config version" as an argument to -r
BZ#620679
Qdiskd now stops voting and exits if removed from the configuration
BZ#624822
gfs_controld: fix plock owner in unmount
BZ#635413
Qdiskd now reports to users when the quorumd "label" attribute overrides the "device" attribute
BZ#636243
Qdiskd now has a hard limit on heuristic timeouts
BZ#649021
Pacemaker-specific versions of dlm_controld and gfs_controld have been removed since they are no longer required
BZ#657041
cman now allows users to select udpu (UDP unicast) corosync transport mechanism
BZ#663433
Qdiskd now assumes votes for each cluster node are 1 when not specified in cluster.conf
BZ#669340
The cman init script can no longer include an incorrect sysconf file
BZ#645830, BZ#618705, BZ#684020, BZ#629017, BZ#680172
The cluster.rng schema has been updated
BZ#680155
A memory leak in the XML parser has been fixed
BZ#688154
Heuristic checks are unreliable
BZ#688734
gfs2_convert no longer exits success without doing anything
BZ#628013
fsck.gfs2 was truncating directories with more than 100,000 entries
BZ#621313
fsck.gfs2 was processing some files twice
BZ#622576
fsck.gfs2 no longer crashes if journals are missing
BZ#632595
When mounting a gfs2 file system, the same device requested on the command line now appears in /proc/mounts and /etc/mtab
BZ#637913
gfs2_convert now resumes after an interrupted conversion
BZ#576640
fsck.gfs2 can now repair rgrps resulting from gfs_grow->gfs2_convert
BZ#624535
mkfs.gfs2 no longer segfaults with 18.55TB and -b512
BZ#656956
mkfs.gfs2 now supports discard request generation
BZ#663037
fsck.gfs2: reports master/root inodes as unused and fixes the bitmap
BZ#630005
gfs2_convert no longer corrupts the file system if the di_height is too large.
Enhancements
BZ#592964
Fenced now sends notifications over DBus
BZ#634623
gfs2_edit now outputs hexadecimal values in lower-case
BZ#634623
gfs2_edit now prints continuation blocks
BZ#634623
gfs2_edit's savemeta and restoremeta functions now report progress
BZ#674843
gfs2_edit has improved handling of corrupt file systems and enhanced
BZ#563901
It is now possible to prevent the cluster software from starting at boot using the kernel command line
BZ#560700
It is now possible to prevent the cluster software from starting at boot using the kernel command line
All users of Red Hat High Availability and Red Hat Resilient Storage are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.
Updated cluster and gfs2-utils packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Red Hat Cluster Manager is a collection of technologies working together to provide data integrity and the ability to maintain application availability in the event of a failure. Using redundant hardware, shared disk storage, power management, and robust cluster communication and application failover mechanisms, a cluster can meet the needs of the enterprise market.
Bug Fix
BZ#728247
Prior to this update, the "suborg" option was not allowed by the cluster configuration schema defined in the /usr/share/cluster/cluster.rng file. As a consequence, when the "suborg" option was specified for the fence_cisco_ucs agent, the cluster refused to validate the configuration schema. The "suborg" option is now properly recognized, which fixes the problem.
All users of cluster and gfs2-utils are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.
Updated cluster and gfs2-utils packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Red Hat Cluster Manager is a collection of technologies working together to provide data integrity and the ability to maintain application availability in the event of a failure. Using redundant hardware, shared disk storage, power management, and robust cluster communication and application failover mechanisms, a cluster can meet the needs of the enterprise market.
Bug Fix
BZ#720100
Previously, when a custom multicast address was configured, the configuration parser incorrectly set the default value of the time-to-live (TTL) variable for multicast packet to 0. Consequently, cluster nodes could not communicate with each other. With this update, the default TTL value is set to 1, thus fixing this bug.
Users of cluster and gfs2-utils are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

1.25. compat-dapl

Updated compat-dapl packages that fix a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The DAT programming API provides a means of utilizing high performance network technologies, such as InfiniBand and iWARP, without needing to write your program to use those technologies directly. compat-dapl contains the libraries that implement version 1.2 of the DAT API. compat-dapl is provided solely for backward compatibility.

Bug Fix

635155
Fixes an issue in which, under certain error conditions, dapl could fail to properly clean up its internal state, potentially resulting in subsequent incorrect operation.
Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

1.26. coolkey

An updated coolkey package that fixes a bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The coolkey package contains driver support for CoolKey and Common Access Card (CAC) smart card products.
Bug Fix
BZ#210200
Previous versions of coolkey would fail to operate correctly if the pcscd daemon in the pcsc-lite package was restarted. Proper operation could be restored by restarting the application which was using coolkey, for example, the Gnome screensaver or the Gnome login screen when used with a smart card login. With this update, applications no longer need to be restarted to function properly when the pcscd daemon is restarted.
All users of coolkey are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves this issue.

1.27. coreutils

Updated coreutils packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The coreutils package contains the core GNU utilities. It is the combination of the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.
Bug Fixes
BZ#630017
The su utility was previously not built with PIE and RELRO enabled, as they were in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. In this update, it is built as a PIE executable and is using RELRO protection.
BZ#628212
Previously, when reading a line longer than 16KiB, the tac utility reallocated its primary buffer. Before exiting, the tac utility tried to free the already freed original buffer, which caused a utility crash after a double free error displayed. This was fixed and the tac utility no longer frees an already freed buffer.
BZ#598631
Previously, the hardware control flow, DTRDSR, was implemented via TC{SG}ETX. This was changed to TC{SG}ET ioctl, which caused the CDTRDSR support in stty to fail. This was fixed to allow stty to correctly handle CDTRDSR control flow.
BZ#683799
Previously, the internalization patch for coreutils had an unsafe initialization of char* bufops that left bufops uninitialized or initialized to NULL on the first usage. This behavior called memmove from an incorrect address, namely from address 0 and size 0. This is now fixed and bufops is correctly initialized for the first use.
BZ#649224
Previously, when the multibyte LC_TIME differed from LC_CTYPE, an assertion failure caused the sort utility to crash irrespective of the parameters provided to it. This is fixed to prevent a crash when the sort utility is run and now works as expected.
BZ#660033
Previously, the information page about 8-bit octal values did not mention checking if the value was lower than 256. Due to this, when a command like "/bin/echo -e '\0610'" was used, the results were not accurate. This is now fixed to provide more accurate information about the behavior of octal values.
BZ#614605
Previously, when the dd utility used pipes, it read and wrote partial blocks. When the size of the block written was shorter than the specified maximum output block size, the "oflag=direct" would turn off, which resulted in degraded I/O performance. The workaround for this behavior, which involves the addition of "iflag=fullblock" is now available in the information documentation.
BZ#662900
Previously, documentation for tail command's --sleep-interval option did not outline the results of inotify support. This is now fixed and the documentation states that with inotify support, the --sleep-interval option is only relevant when the tail command reverts to the old polling-based method.
BZ#609262
Previously, the coreutils information page was not sufficiently clear about behavior when multiple parent and leaf node directories are created. This is now fixed to incorporate additional information in the coreutils information page about the @option mode and its behavior when combined with the --parents option.
All coreutils users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

1.28. corosync

Updated corosync packages that fix a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Update Support.
The corosync packages provide the Corosync Cluster Engine and C Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux cluster software.

Bug Fix

BZ#849552
Previously, the corosync-notifyd daemon, with dbus output enabled, waited 0.5 seconds each time a message was sent through dbus. Consequently, corosync-notifyd was extremely slow in producing output and memory of the Corosync server grew. In addition, when corosync-notifyd was killed, its memory was not freed. With this update, corosync-notifyd no longer slows down its operation with these half-second delays and Corosync now properly frees memory when an IPC client exits.
Users of corosync are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.
Updated corosync packages that fix multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The corosync packages provide the Corosync Cluster Engine and C Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux cluster software.
Bug Fixes
BZ#619496
Multicast emulation caused an extra delay to the multicast packet transmission, causing unnecessary retransmission of the packet. This update adds the "miss_count_const" constant allowing the user to specify how many times a message is checked before retransmission occurs.
BZ#619918
When denied permissions from SELinux, corosync failed with a segmentation fault. Corosync now passes an error back to the API user when it is unable to create a connection between the server and client instead of causing a segmentation fault.
BZ#613836
When provided an invalid multicast address, corosync failed without errors. This is now fixed, thus corosync displays an error when given an invalid multicast address.
BZ#639023
Corosync client libraries delayed for 2 seconds before they displayed an error on a shut down. This is now fixed, thus the exited flag value before and after sem_wait is checked. If the value is true, ERR_LIBRARY displays.
BZ#640311
The default TTL value in multicast was 1, preventing use on a routed network. The TTL value is now configurable in the corosync configuration file, thus multicast can now be used on a routed network.
BZ#684930, BZ#684920
BZ#640311 introduced a regression.
BZ#665165
Shared memory no longer is leaked if the corosync server unexpectedly exits while connected to corosync clients.
BZ#626962
Running multiple instances of corosync simultaneously would succeed, causing local node errors. This is now fixed to prevent initialization of multiple instances of corosync.
BZ#614104
If cman ran the corosync init script, it would cause the corosync init script to be blocked. This is now fixed to allow corosync to create a Pid file and to allow cman to run corosync.
BZ#629380
Corosync was unable to capture system events and notify the user about them. With this fix, SNMP MIB and daemon are added for system event notification via DBUS and SNMP.
BZ#675859
Member objects in corosync were not found due to validation failure. This is fixed with an addition to the objdb file, thus validation for SNMP/DBUS integration is now successful.
BZ#675741
The corosync build contained invalid version information, which caused rpmdiff to warn the user about version information changes. This was fixed, thus pkgconfig files are now correctly configured to display version as 1.2.3.
BZ#680258
Corosync rebuilds succeeded only on fresh installations due to a regression issue. This is now fixed, thus corosync now rebuilds on existing installations as well.
BZ#675099
A ring id file smaller than 8 bytes caused corosync to abort. This was fixed by recreating the ring id file, thus corosync now does not abort due to the ring id file.
BZ#677975
Inconsistent cluster.conf files amongst nodes caused a memory leak. This is now fixed, thus a configuration reload via cman_tool no longer causes a memory leak.
BZ#675783
During the recovery phase, aisexec exited unexpectedly, resulting in a lost network token. This is now fixed, thus aisexec no longer exits due to a lost token.
BZ#568164
UDPU transport is added, which simulates multicast via UDP unicast. This adds a third transport option to broadcast and multicast in a cluster.
BZ#688691
Fix abort that happens in rare circumstances during shutdown.
All users of corosync are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.
Updated corosync packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Update Support.
The corosync packages provide the Corosync Cluster Engine and C Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux cluster software.
Bug Fix
BZ#828431
Previously, it was not possible to activate or deactivate debug logs at runtime due to memory corruption in the objdb structure. With this update, the debug logging can now be activated or deactivated on runtime, for example with the command "corosync-objctl -w logging.debug=off".
All users of corosync are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.
Updated corosync packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Update Support.
The corosync packages provide the Corosync Cluster Engine and the C language APIs for Red Hat Enterprise Linux cluster software.
Bug Fix
BZ#810916
Previously, the underlying library of corosync did not delete temporary buffers used for Inter-Process Communication (IPC) that are stored in the /dev/shm shared memory file system. Therefore, if the user without proper privileges attempted to establish an IPC connection, the attempt failed with an error message as expected but memory allocated for temporary buffers was not released. This could eventually result in /dev/shm being fully used and Denial of Service. This update modifies the coroipcc library to let applications delete temporary buffers if the buffers were not deleted by the corosync server. The /dev/shm file system is no longer cluttered with needless data in this scenario and IPC connections can be established as expected.
All users of corosync are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.
Updated corosync packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Update Support.
The corosync packages provide the Corosync Cluster Engine and C Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux cluster software.
Bug Fix
BZ#791235
Previously, the range condition for the update_aru() function could cause incorrect check of message IDs. Due to this, in rare cases, the corosync utility entered the "FAILED TO RECEIVE" state, and so failed to receive multicast packets. With this update, the range value in the update_aru() function is no longer checked for; the fail_to_recv_const constant performs such checks. Now, corosync does not fail to receive packets.
All users of corosync are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.
Updated corosync packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The corosync packages provide the Corosync Cluster Engine and C Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux cluster software.
Bug Fixes
BZ#726608
Previously, under heavy traffic, receive buffers sometimes overflowed, causing loss of packets. Consequently, retransmit list error messages appeared in the log files. This bug has been fixed, incoming messages are now processed more frequently, and the retransmit list error messages no longer appear in the described scenario.
BZ#727962
Previously, when a combination of a lossy network and a large number of configuration changes was used with corosync, corosync sometimes terminated unexpectedly. This bug has been fixed, and corosync no longer crashes in the described scenario.
BZ#734997
Prior to this update, when corosync ran the "cman_tool join" and "cman_tool leave" commands in a loop, corosync sometimes terminated unexpectedly. This bug has been fixed, and corosync no longer crashes in the described scenario.
All users of corosync are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

1.29. cracklib

Updated cracklib packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
CrackLib is a password-checking library that is used to help enforce password quality controls.
Bug Fixes
BZ#583932
Manual pages for the cracklib-check, cracklib-format, and create-cracklib-dict utilities have been added.
BZ#627449
The Simplified Chinese (zh_CN) translation of one of the error messages the library can produce has been corrected, and no longer contains untranslated strings.
All users of cracklib are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

1.30. crash

An updated crash package that fixes various bugs and adds two enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The crash package provides a self-contained tool that can be used to investigate live systems, and kernel core dumps created from the netdump, diskdump, kdump, and Xen/KVM "virsh dump" facilities from Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
The crash package has been upgraded to upstream version 5.1.1, which provides a number of bug fixes over the previous version. (BZ#649070)
Bug Fixes
BZ#637735
On 64-bit x86 architectures, using the "bt" command to analyze core dumps from kernel 2.6.27 or later caused it to display an invalid "vgettimeofday" frame above the topmost "system_call_fastpath" frame, followed by two read error messages similar to the following:
bt: read error: kernel virtual address: ffffffffff600000  type: "gdb_readmem_callback"
This error no longer occurs, and the "bt" command now produces correct results for these kernels.
BZ#649050
When analyzing a KVM dump file from a 64-bit x86 guest system, the crash utility failed to determine the starting RIP and RSP hooks. This rendered it unable to produce a correct backtrace for tasks that were either running in user space when the "virsh dump" operation was performed on a live guest, or that were running on interrupt or exception stacks. With this update, the RIP and RSP hooks for a particular dump file are now determined by using the content of the per-CPU registers in the CPU device format. As a result, the "bt" command no longer produces incorrect backtraces for such dump files.
BZ#649051
When analyzing a KVM dump file from an x86 guest system, the crash utility was unable to determine the starting EIP and ESP hooks, and produced an invalid backtrace. With this update, the crash utility has been updated to use the 64-bit CPU device format in x86 KVM dump files by default, and only use the 32-bit format when it is determined that the host machine was running a 32-bit kernel. As a result, running the "bt" command when analyzing such a dump file now produces a correct backtrace.
BZ#649053
When creating a KVM dump file, the "virsh dump" operation marks all non-crashing CPUs as offline. Due to an incorrect use of the "cpu_online_map" mask to determine the CPU count, previous version of the crash utility may have reported a wrong number of CPUs when analyzing dumps created by the "virsh dump" command on x86 guest systems. With this update, the underlying source code has been adapted to use the "cpu_present_map" mask instead, so that the crash utility reports the correct number of CPUs.
BZ#682129
Prior to this update, an attempt to display a backtrace of a non-active swapper task on a 32-bit x86 architecture could cause the crash utility to display the following message:
bt: cannot resolve stack trace:
#0 [c09f1ef4] ia32_sysenter_target at c08208ce
This update applies a patch that resolves this issue, and the crash utility now resolves such backtraces as expected. Additionally, this update ensures that the crash utility is no longer negatively affected by the changes that were introduced in kernel 2.6.32-112.
Enhancements
BZ#633449
The crash utility has been updated to provide support for dump files created on the IBM System z architecture.
BZ#637197
The crash utility now supports compressed and/or filtered dump files generated by the makedumpfile utility on IBM System z.
All users of crash are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes these bugs and adds these enhancements.

1.31. crda

An updated crda package that adds one enhancement is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The crda package contains the Central Regulatory Domain Agent, which provides the kernel with the wireless regulatory rules for a given jurisdiction.

Enhancement

654066
This updated crda package enhances the kernel with the most current information with regard to wireless regulatory rules, and ensures that these updated rules are enforced.
All users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which adds this enhancement.

1.32. cronie

Updated cronie packages that fix various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Cronie contains the standard UNIX daemon crond that runs specified programs at scheduled times and related tools. It is a fork of the original vixie-cron and has security and configuration enhancements like the ability to use pam and SELinux.
Bug Fixes
BZ#615107
The initscript output written to /var/log/boot.log contained a double output of "OK", printed by /etc/init.d/crond and daemon. This error has been corrected: the echo from /etc/init.d/crond is removed, thus the output is now as expected.
BZ#624043
Cronie didn't close file descriptor, which caused other applications such as anacron that are subsequently started by cronie to inherit the file descriptor. This caused SELinux to prevent /bin/bash access. With this update, the file descriptor is no longer inherited by other applications, thus SELinux no longer prevents /bin/bash access.
BZ#675077
An incorrect option in the bash script caused anacron to run daily instead of hourly if the /var/spool/anacron/cron.daily file existed. The error has been corrected: the bash script option is fixed and anacron now runs once a day if the /var/spool/anacron/cron.daily file exists.
BZ#676040
RELRO flags were previously not set by default from crond. This is now fixed so that cronie is compiled with RELRO protection enabled.
BZ#676081
The /usr/bin/crontab was set to use both setuid and setgid permissions, but this was changed to use only setuid.
BZ#677364
Multiple code quality improvements were made, which include: - In src/crontab.c, mkstemp expects six X's to be replaced with digits at the end of each filename. This fix removes the extra X's. - In src/security.c, ccon was not freed after a return. This is fixed and ccon is now freed using context_free. - In anacron/run_job.c, fdin was tested before being initialized. This is fixed to ensure that fdin is now initialized prior to testing.
All users of cronie are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves these issues.

1.33. cryptsetup-luks

Updated cryptsetup-luks packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The cryptsetup-luks packages provide the utility allowing users to set up encrypted devices with the Device Mapper and the dm-crypt target.
The cryptsetup-luks package has been upgraded to upstream version 1.2.0, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#658817)
In addition, these updated cryptsetup-luks packages provide fixes for the following bugs:
BZ#612963
Previously, cryptsetup printed twice the error message notifying the user that the queried device did not exist. With this update, the underlying code was changed and the error message is displayed once.
BZ#623121
Prior to this update, when the user attempted to encrypt a device with the MD4 or MD5 hash algorithm, cryptsetup did not alert the user that the encryption with those algorithms was not supported, had failed, and that therefore the device could not be used. With this update, cryptsetup terminates the process and prints a message advising the user to check if the required encryption method is supported.
BZ#674825
Previously, cryptsetup did not remove keys as soon as possible from device control buffers and therefore did not follow FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard). With this update, the underlying code has been changed and the keys are removed from the buffers as soon as possible.
BZ#677634
Previously, if the user issued the "cryptsetup luksRemoveKey" command with the "--key-file" parameter, the command removed the key defined in the standard input. With this update, such command removes the key defined in the "--key-file" parameter.
BZ#692512
Prior to this update, when updating with the "yum update" command, the device-mapper-libs package was not updated. This occurred because the previous version of the cryptsetup package was compatible with any version of the package. This update adds the dependency to the cryptsetup package and the device-mapper-libs is updated to provide the compatible device-mapper-libs package.
BZ#693371
Previously, when running in FIPS mode, the salt for PBKDF2 (Password-Based Key Derivation Function) was generated with the /dev/urandom device. According to NIST Special Publication 800-132, all or a portion of the salt must be generated with an approved random number generator. With this update, the salt is generated with the FIPS RNG (Random Number Generator) and the criterion is met.
Enhancements
BZ#663869
With this update, cryptsetup uses a FIPS certified random number generator for generation of volume keys when running in FIPS mode.
BZ#663870
This update adds the integrity check of the cryptsetup binary and library for FIPS mode.
Users are advised to upgrade to these updated cryptsetup-luks packages, which resolve these bugs and add these enhancements.
Updated cryptsetup-luks packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The cryptsetup-luks packages provide a utility which allows users to set up encrypted devices with the Device Mapper and the dm-crypt target.
Bug Fixes
BZ#713456
When the cryptsetup or libcryptsetup utility was run in FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standards) mode, the "Running in FIPS mode." message was displayed during initialization of all commands. This sometimes caused minor issues with associated scripts. This bug has been fixed and the message is now displayed only in verbose mode.
BZ#709055
Previously, the libcryptsetup crypt_get_volume_key() function allowed to perform an action not compliant with FIPS. To conform FIPS requirements, the function is now disabled in FIPS mode and returns an EACCES error code to indicate it.
Note that the "luksDump --dump-master-key" command and the key escrow functionality of the volume_key package are also disabled in FIPS mode as a consequence of this update.
Users of cryptsetup-luks are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

1.34. cups

Updated cups packages resolving several issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer for Linux, UNIX, and similar operating systems.
Bug Fixes
BZ#580604
Some printers were incorrectly reporting ink and toner levels via SNMP backend. Support for an SNMP quirk has been added and enabled via the PPD file.
BZ#614908
Previously, lpstat -p always reported job id as '-0'. This was because the jobstate was never IPP_JOB_PROCESSING due to an SVN revision upstream. This patch fixes this issue by adding the attributes needed for jobs.
BZ#616864
The previous 8MB default RIP cache size was insufficient for modern high-resolution (color/photo) printing. This was because filters such as pstoraster could fail. This update increases the default RIP cache size to 128MB to fix this issue.
BZ#624441
If the cupsd daemon was stopped while a job was being sent to a printer using a given backend, that backend was restarted multiple times before the CUPS scheduler actually terminated. In this updated package, the CUPS scheduler tracks whether it is shutting down and does not automatically start new jobs if so.
BZ#632180
The 'restartlog' action was missing in Initscript usage output, preventing its usage. This update adds it.
BZ#634931
Several rpmlint errors and warnings were fixed: - fixing the character encoding in CREDITS.txt - marking the D-Bus configuration file as config file - not marking MIME types and convs files as config files (overrides can be placed as new *.types/*.convs files in /etc/cups) - not marking banners as config files, instead new banners are provided - not marking initscript as a config file - not marking templates and www files as config files, instead a different ServerRoot setting is used to provide local overrides. Please note that a recent security fix required a change to template files - providing a versioned LPRng symbol for rpmlint - using mode 0755 for binaries and libraries where appropriate - moving /etc/cups/pstoraster.convs to /usr/share/cups/mime/ - moving the cups-config man page to the devel sub-package
BZ#642448
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 CUPS clients use the character set specified in LANG as the charset attribute in CUPS IPP requests, where Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 ignore this, leading to incompatibilities. In these updated packages the CUPS server has been adjusted so that non-UTF-8 clients (e.g. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 clients) continue to be accepted.
BZ#646814
The subpackage cups-php consumed library libcups.so2 from subpackage cups-libs even though it did not have an explicit package version requirement. In this update cups-php subpackage now explicitly requires cups-libs of the same version and release.
BZ#654667
The ipp, socket and lpd backends were treating name resolution failures as a permanent error. Because these types of failures can be temporary, the tolerance for DNS failures has been added.
BZ#659692
Previously, the CUPS service did not stop normally if it was running when halting the system or a reboot was performed. Instead, it had to be killed in the final stage of reboot or shut down. This update fixes Initscript so the service is correctly stopped on reboot or halt.
BZ#668010
When the cupsd daemon was running with SELinux features enabled, the file descriptor count was increasing over time until its resources ran out. With this update, the resources are allocated only once so they do not leak file descriptors.
BZ#672614
There was a small typo in sample snmp.conf file. It is fixed in this update.
All users of cups are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.
Updated cups packages that fix a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Common UNIX Printing System (CUPS) provides a portable printing layer for Linux, UNIX, and similar operating systems.
Bug Fix
BZ#736304
The MaxJobs directive controls the maximum number of print jobs that are kept in memory. Previously, once the number of jobs reached the limit, the CUPS system failed to automatically purge the oldest completed job from the system to make room for a new one. This bug has been fixed, and the jobs beyond the limit are now properly purged in the described scenario.
All users of cups are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

1.35. curl

Updated curl packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
cURL provides the libcurl library and a command line tool for downloading files from servers using various protocols, including HTTP, FTP, and LDAP.

Security Fix

CVE-2011-2192
It was found that cURL always performed credential delegation when authenticating with GSSAPI. A rogue server could use this flaw to obtain the client's credentials and impersonate that client to other servers that are using GSSAPI.
Users of curl should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. All running applications using libcurl must be restarted for the update to take effect.
Updated curl packages that fix bugs in HTTPS, FTP, LDAP and proxy kerberos authentication are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
cURL is a tool for getting files from HTTP, FTP, FILE, LDAP, LDAPS, DICT, TELNET and TFTP servers, using any of the supported protocols. cURL is designed to work without user interaction or any kind of interactivity. cURL offers many useful capabilities, like proxy support, user authentication, FTP upload, HTTP post, and file transfer resume.
Bug Fixes
BZ#690273
libcurl introduced a segfault where a RHEL 6.1 machine registered at RHN would result in a segmentation fault (core dumped) after running "yum clean all" and "yum update" respectively. "CERT_GetDefaultCertDB" is now used to prevent a segmentation fault after the "yum clean all" and "yum update" sequence.
BZ#623663
libcurl HTTPS connections failed with a CURLE_OUT_OF_MEMORY error when given a certificate file name without a "/". This is now fixed to treat such a string as certificate nickname and if a file with the same name exists and libcurl runs in verbose mode, a warning is issued. The updated documentation now suggests to use the "./" prefix to load a file from the current directory.
BZ#669048
A rebuild operation for curl failed if the libnih-devel package was installed. This is now fixed to allow a rebuild whether libnih-devel is installed, not installed or has a broken installation.
BZ#669702
libcurl ignored the CA path provided in CURLOPT_CAPATH and consequently curl ignored the "--capath" argument provided. This is fixed so that libcurl now uses the value provided with the "--capath" argument.
BZ#670802
libcurl leaked memory and eventually resulted in a failed NSS shutdown when more than one CA certificate was loaded. This is now fixed so that libcurl works as expected when more than one CA certificates is loaded.
BZ#678594
libcurl leaked memory when an SSL connection failed. This is now fixed to prevent the memory leak during an SSL connection failure.
BZ#651592
libcurl FTP protocol implementation was unable to handle server session timeouts correctly. This is now fixed so that libcurl drops the connection when a 421 timeout response is received.
BZ#655134
libcurl failed when an LDAP request was sent using curl through a HTTP proxy in tunnel mode (curl option "-p" or "--proxytunnel"). Curl tried to connect directly to the LDAP server via the proxy port and consequently failed. This is now fixed to allow libcurl LDAP connections through HTTP proxies to work as expected.
BZ#625685
libcurl was unable to authenticate http proxies via Kerberos. This is now fixed and libcurl can successfully authenticate http proxies via Kerberos.
BZ#678580
When libcurl connected a second time to an SSL server with the same server certificate, the server's certificate was not re-authenticated because libcurl confirmed authenticity before the first connection to the server. This is fixed by disabling the SSL cache when it is not verifying a certificate to force the verification of the certificate on the second use.
BZ#684892
Kerberos authentication was broken for reused curl handles, which prevented "git clone"' from working with Kerberos authenticated web servers. This is now fixed to allow "git clone" operations to successfully authenticate and carry out operations.
BZ#694294
It was not possible to use two distinct client certificates to connect two times in a row to the same SSL server. This is now fixed to allow two different client certifications to connect to the same SSL server.
Users of curl should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain back-ported patches to correct these issues. All running applications using libcurl must be restarted for the update to take effect.
Updated curl packages that resolve an issue are now available Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The curl packages provide the libcurl library and the cURL command line tool for transferring data using various protocols, including HTTP, FTP, FILE, LDAP, TELNET, TFTP, SCP. Both, libcurl and cURL, support many useful capabilities, such as user authentication, proxy support, FTP uploading, HTTP POST and PUT methods, SSL certificates, and file transfer resume.
Bug Fix
BZ#727884
As a solution to a security issue, GSSAPI credential delegation was disabled, which broke the functionality of the applications that were relying on delegation, which was incorrectly enabled by libcurl. To fix this issue, the CURLOPT_GSSAPI_DELEGATION libcurl option has been introduced in order to enable delegation explicitly when applications need it. All applications using GSSAPI credential delegation can now use this new libcurl option to be able to run properly.
All users of cURL and libcurl are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve this issue. All running applications using libcurl have to be restarted for the update to take an effect.

1.36. cyrus-imapd

Updated cyrus-imapd packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
The cyrus-imapd packages contain a high-performance mail server with IMAP, POP3, NNTP, and Sieve support.

Security Fix

CVE-2011-1926
It was discovered that cyrus-imapd did not flush the received commands buffer after switching to TLS encryption for IMAP, LMTP, NNTP, and POP3 sessions. A man-in-the-middle attacker could use this flaw to inject protocol commands into a victim's TLS session initialization messages. This could lead to those commands being processed by cyrus-imapd, potentially allowing the attacker to steal the victim's mail or authentication credentials.
Users of cyrus-imapd are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing the update, cyrus-imapd will be restarted automatically.
Updated cyrus-imapd packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
The cyrus-imapd packages contain a high-performance mail server with IMAP, POP3, NNTP, and Sieve support.

Security Fix

CVE-2011-3208
A buffer overflow flaw was found in the cyrus-imapd NNTP server, nntpd. A remote user able to use the nntpd service could use this flaw to crash the nntpd child process or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the cyrus user.
Red Hat would like to thank Greg Banks for reporting this issue.
Users of cyrus-imapd are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing the update, cyrus-imapd will be restarted automatically.
Updated cyrus-imapd packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
The cyrus-imapd packages contain a high-performance mail server with IMAP, POP3, NNTP, and Sieve support.

Security Fixes

CVE-2011-3372
An authentication bypass flaw was found in the cyrus-imapd NNTP server, nntpd. A remote user able to use the nntpd service could use this flaw to read or post newsgroup messages on an NNTP server configured to require user authentication, without providing valid authentication credentials.
CVE-2011-3481
A NULL pointer dereference flaw was found in the cyrus-imapd IMAP server, imapd. A remote attacker could send a specially-crafted mail message to a victim that would possibly prevent them from accessing their mail normally, if they were using an IMAP client that relies on the server threading IMAP feature.
Red Hat would like to thank the Cyrus IMAP project for reporting the CVE-2011-3372 issue. Upstream acknowledges Stefan Cornelius of Secunia Research as the original reporter of CVE-2011-3372.
Users of cyrus-imapd are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. After installing the update, cyrus-imapd will be restarted automatically.

1.37. dapl

Updated dapl packages that fix multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The dapl package provides a user space implementation of the DAT 2.0 API, and is built to natively support InfiniBand/iWARP network technology.
Bug Fixes
BZ#626541
Under certain circumstances, when a thread was waiting on dapls_evd_dto_wait() and the thread received a signal, the function would return an incorrect error code, resulting in the application failing rather than retrying the request.
BZ#626541
Previously, the function dapls_evd_dto_wait() returned, under certain circumstances, an error code when a thread was waiting on the function and the thread received a signal. Due to this behavior, the application failed. With this update, the application retries the request.
BZ#636596
Previously, applications that utilize uDAPL could not use the RDMA over converged Ethernet (RoCE) feature. This update adds these additional entries to the dat.conf file.
BZ#649360
The dat_ia_open() function could, under certain circumstances, fail to return. With this update, the function returns as expected.
BZ#667742
Under certain circumstances dapl could fail to clean up its internal state, resulting in subsequent usage of the library to fail. With this update, the internal state is cleaned up as expected and the library can be used without further problems.
BZ#637980
Previously, dapl could, under certain circumstances, fail to free allocated memory, potentially causing the application to run out of memory and fail. Now, dapl frees all allocated memory.
All dapl users should upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

1.38. dbus

Updated dbus packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
D-Bus is a system for sending messages between applications. It is used for the system-wide message bus service and as a per-user-login-session messaging facility.

Security Fix

CVE-2011-2200
A denial of service flaw was found in the way the D-Bus library handled endianness conversion when receiving messages. A local user could use this flaw to send a specially-crafted message to dbus-daemon or to a service using the bus, such as Avahi or NetworkManager, possibly causing the daemon to exit or the service to disconnect from the bus.
All users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. For the update to take effect, all running instances of dbus-daemon and all running applications using the libdbus library must be restarted, or the system rebooted.

1.39. device-mapper-multipath

Updated device-mapper-multipath packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Update Support.
The device-mapper-multipath packages provide tools for managing multipath devices using the device-mapper multipath kernel module.

Bug Fixes

BZ#863462
When certain multipathd threads started their operation, they did not check if the multipathd daemon was being shut down. Consequently, multipathd could terminate unexpectedly with a segmentation fault on shutdown. With this update, the multipathd threads properly quit if they detect multipathd is shutting down and the crashes no longer occur.
BZ#866553
Previously, multipathd was removing a map twice if it failed to create a multipath device when adding a path device. Consequently, multipathd accessed already freed memory and in some cases terminated unexpectedly when a new path device was added. With this update, multipathd no longer performs the second remove operation and the crashes no longer occur in the described scenario.
All users of device-mapper-multipath are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.
Updated device-mapper-multipath packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Linux 6.
The device-mapper-multipath packages provide tools for multipath device management with the device-mapper multipath kernel module.
Bug Fixes
BZ#611779
If you sent the multipathd daemon a command consisting only of spaces, the daemon terminated unexpectedly with a segmentation fault. With this update, the daemon is able to handle such commands and no longer crashes in this circumstance.
BZ#635088
Prior to this update, the daemon occasionally grouped paths incorrectly because the multipathd daemon did not recalculate path groups when restoring paths. Now, when a new path goes online, the multipathd daemon verifies whether it needs to recalculate path groups, and refreshes and reads all priorities.
BZ#636071
Previously, if the user edited configuration information with the mpathconf command, the process could have failed. This happened when the user ran the command without any additional arguments due to a conflict of the environment variable DISPLAY with the program variable DISPLAY. With this update, all variables are unset when the script is started and the DISPLAY program variable is renamed. The environment variable DISPLAY remains unchanged when the mpathconf is issued and the command works as expected.
BZ#645605
The DM-Multipath application marked paths as failed if it was unable to determine if a path was offline. With this update, multipath calls the path_checker function to determine the path state in such cases and the problem no longer occurs.
BZ#650797
Previously, multipathd displayed no tgt_node_name value for iSCI devices. This occurred because multipath used the FC (Fibre Channel) path from the sysfs file system to obtain tgt_node_name for iSCI devices. With this update, multipath first tries to acquire the FC path. If it fails, it uses the iSCI target name for the device.
BZ#651389
Previously, if you set dev_loss_tmo to a value greater than 600 in multipath.conf without setting the fast_io_fail_tmo value, the multipathd daemon failed to apply the setting. With this update, the multipathd daemon sets dev_loss_tmo for values over 600 correctly, as long as fast_io_fail_tmo is also set in the /etc/multipath.conf file.
BZ#662731
DM-Multipath could have terminated unexpectedly if the multipath.conf file contained parameters with no value. This occurred because it was trying to acquire the string length of an optional value before verifying that a value was actually defined. With this update, multipathd first checks if the value exists and the bug is fixed.
BZ#622569
On a non-disruptive upgrade (NDU), all paths to EMC Symmetrix arrays could have failed, which caused multipathd to fail all outstanding input/output. DM-Multipath now has a new default configuration for EMC Symmetrix arrays that queues input/output for up to 30 seconds if all paths are down and the problem no longer occurs.
BZ#623644
The multipathd daemon consumed excessive memory when iSCI devices were unloaded and reloaded. This occurred because the daemon was caching unnecessary sysfs data, which caused memory leaks. With this update, multipathd no longer caches these data; it frees the data when the associated device is removed.
BZ#680480
During a double path failure, the sysfs device file is removed and the sysdev path attribute is set to NULL. The sysfs device cache is indexed by the actual sysfs directory, and /sys/block/pathname is a symlink. Prior to this update, if the path was deleted, multipathd was not able to find the actual directory, which /sys/block/pathname pointed to, and searched the cache. With this update, multipathd verifies that sysdev has NULL value before updating it.
BZ#681144
When a path was removed, the multipathd daemon did not always remove the path sysfs device from its cache. The daemon kept searching the cache for the device and created sysfs devices without the vecs lock held. Because of this, paths could have pointed to invalid sysfs devices and caused multipathd to crash. The multipathd daemon now always removes the sysfs device from cache when deleting a path and accesses the cache only with the vecs lock held.
Enhancements
BZ#576919
The log_checker_err option was added to the multipath.conf defaults section. By default, the option is set to always and a path checker error is logged continuously. If set to once, multipathd logs a path checker error once at logging level 2. Any later errors are logged at level 3 until the device is restored.
BZ#599690
Previously, the defaults section of the multipath.conf man page implied that the settings defined in the section became default and overrode the implied settings. Since the HWTABLE cannot be overridden, the wording of the man page has been changed.
BZ#628095
Previously, DM-Multipath did not print any messages when errors were detected in the multipath.conf file. With this update, multipath prints warning messages that inform the user that the configuration files contains invalid or duplicate options and the bug is fixed.
BZ#632734
This update adds the default configuration for Virtual SCSI disks.
BZ#633643
This update adds the default configuration for NEC Storage M.
BZ#636213
This update adds the default configuration for HP P2000.
BZ#636246
This update adds the default configuration for HP OPEN devices.
BZ#644111
If the initramfs file system was not rebuilt when a new storage device was added to the system, the new device could have been assigned a user_friendly_names value that matched the user_friendly_names value already-assigned to another device. This device then stopped working correctly. The multipathd daemon now accepts a -B option, which makes the user_friendly_names bindings file read-only. When initramfs calls multipath with the -B option, devices without a binding to a user_friendly_names use their World Wide Identifier (WWID).
BZ#650664
Previously, the DM-Multipath did not prompt the user to increase the maximum number of open file descriptors (max_fds) if it failed to open a file descriptor due to receiving an EMFILE error. With this update, it prints out a message advising the user to do so.
BZ#602883
Previously, the multipathd deamon printed add map messages whenever it received a change uevent. In order not to clutter logs, multipathd now only prints add map messages for the change uevents of the devices that are not yet monitored.
BZ#639037
Previously, DM-Multipath did not set a default value for the no_path_retry parameter for Hitachi R700 devices. With this update, the parameter value for the devices is set to 6 by default.
BZ#696157
The multipathd daemon could have terminated unexpectedly with a segmentation fault on a multipath device with the path_grouping_policy option set to the group_by_prio value. This occurred when a device path came online after another device path failed because the multipath daemon did not manage to remove the restored path correctly. With this update multipath removes and restores such paths correctly.
Users are advised to upgrade to these updated device-mapper-multipath packages, which resolve these issues and add these enhancements.
Updated device-mapper-multipath packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Update Support.
The device-mapper-multipath packages provide tools to manage multipath devices using the device-mapper multipath kernel module.
Bug Fix
BZ#802431
Device-Mapper Multipath uses certain regular expressions in the built-in device configurations to determine a multipath device so that the correct configuration can be applied to the device. Previously, some regular expressions for the device vendor and product ID were set too broad. As a consequence, some devices could be matched with incorrect device configurations. With this update, the product and vendor regular expressions have been set more strict so that all multipath devices can now be properly configured.
All users of device-mapper-multipath are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.
Updated device-mapper-multipath packages that fix a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The device-mapper-multipath packages provide tools to manage multipath devices by giving the dm-multipath kernel module instructions on what to do, as well as by managing the creation and removal of partitions for Device-Mapper devices.
Bug Fix
BZ#732384
When deleting a multipath device while checking a path, the multipathd daemon did not abort the path check. As a consequence, the daemon terminated when trying to access multipath device information. The problem has been fixed and the multipathd daemon now aborts the path check when deleting a multipath device.
All users of device-mapper-multipath are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

1.40. dhcp

Updated dhcp packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a protocol that allows individual devices on an IP network to get their own network configuration information, including an IP address, a subnet mask, and a broadcast address.

Security Fixes

CVE-2011-2748, CVE-2011-2749
Two denial of service flaws were found in the way the dhcpd daemon handled certain incomplete request packets. A remote attacker could use these flaws to crash dhcpd via a specially-crafted request.
Users of DHCP should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct these issues. After installing this update, all DHCP servers will be restarted automatically.
Updated dhcp packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) is a protocol that allows individual devices on an IP network to get their own network configuration information, including an IP address, a subnet mask, and a broadcast address. DHCPv6 is the DHCP protocol version for IPv6 networks.
Bug Fixes
BZ#625846
Previously, it was impossible to configure the dhcrelay service to run the dhcrelay daemon with additional arguments. With this update, a DHCRELAYARGS variable is available for the /etc/sysconfig/dhcrelay configuration file, which allows additional arguments to be passed to the dhcrelay daemon properly.
BZ#627257
Previously, the dhclient utility did not log its PID (process identifier) in syslog entries, making troubleshooting in systems with multiple running dhclients difficult. Now, the dhclient utility logs its PID properly.
BZ#631071
Previously, the dhclient utility sometimes parsed date strings in lease files incorrectly, resulting in syntax error messages in its output. This bug has been fixed and the dates in the lease files are now parsed with no error messages given.
BZ#637763
When the dhclient utility was updating a "search" entry in the /etc/resolv.conf file, it sometimes did not add a missing domain part. This was inconsistent with NetworkManager behavior. Now, while updating the "search" entry, the dhclient utility always adds the domain part of the host name given to the client if it is missing.
BZ#672551
Previously, the dhcpd service with IPv6 support sometimes created a lease file that it was unable to parse. Consequently, once the service was restarted, it went into a loop and could not start. This bug has been fixed and now the service is able to properly parse all lease files it generates.
BZ#681721
DHCP servers at some ISPs send to clients the "interface-mtu" option with the value of 576. Such a low MTU (Maximum Transmission Unit) can cause throughput problems with UDP traffic, among other things. With this update, the dhclient utility now sets the interface MTU only if the value obtained from the server is higher than 576.
BZ#613683
Previously, the dhclient package was missing its LICENSE file. With this update, the file has been added.
Enhancements
BZ#558641
The dhcp package now provides an implementation of Classless Static Route Options for DHCPv4 (RFC 3442). It can supply network route configuration to a large number of hosts without individual configuration of each one.
BZ#660681
The dhcp package now provides support for IPoIB (IP over InfiniBand) interfaces.
Users of dhcp are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

1.41. dmidecode

An updated dmidecode package that fixes a bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The dmidecode package provides utilities for extracting x86 and Intel Itanium hardware information from the system BIOS or EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface), depending on the SMBIOS/DMI standard. This information typically includes system manufacturer, model name, serial number, BIOS version, and asset tag, as well as other details, depending on the manufacturer.
BZ#744690
Previously, extended records for Memory Device (DMI type 17) and Memory Array Mapped Address (DMI type 19) DMI types were missing from the dmidecode utility output. With this update, dmidecode has been upgraded to upstream version 2.11, which updates support for the SMBIOS specification to version 2.7.1, thus fixing this bug.
All users of dmidecode are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes this bug.

1.42. dovecot

Updated dovecot packages that fix two security issues and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
Dovecot is an IMAP server for Linux, UNIX, and similar operating systems, primarily written with security in mind.

Security Fixes

CVE-2010-3780
A flaw was found in the way Dovecot handled SIGCHLD signals. If a large amount of IMAP or POP3 session disconnects caused the Dovecot master process to receive these signals rapidly, it could cause the master process to crash.
CVE-2010-3707
A flaw was found in the way Dovecot processed multiple Access Control Lists (ACL) defined for a mailbox. In some cases, Dovecot could fail to apply the more specific ACL entry, possibly resulting in more access being granted to the user than intended.
Enhancement
BZ#637056
This erratum upgrades Dovecot to upstream version 2.0.9, providing multiple fixes for the "dsync" utility and improving overall performance. Refer to the "/usr/share/doc/dovecot-2.0.9/ChangeLog" file after installing this update for further information about the changes.
Users of dovecot are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues and add this enhancement. After installing the updated packages, the dovecot service will be restarted automatically.
Updated dovecot packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
Dovecot is an IMAP server for Linux, UNIX, and similar operating systems, primarily written with security in mind.

Security Fix

CVE-2011-1929
A denial of service flaw was found in the way Dovecot handled NULL characters in certain header names. A mail message with specially-crafted headers could cause the Dovecot child process handling the target user's connection to crash, blocking them from downloading the message successfully and possibly leading to the corruption of their mailbox.
Users of dovecot are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to resolve this issue. After installing the updated packages, the dovecot service will be restarted automatically.

1.43. dracut

Updated dracut packages that fix several bugs and add some enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The dracut package is an event-driven initramfs generator infrastructure based around udev. The initramfs is loaded together with the kernel at boot time and initializes the system, so it can read and boot from the root partition.
Bug Fixes
BZ#595096
When attempting to boot with MD RAID, udev issued error messages about a missing label because dracut was in the process of rewriting the udev rules files while udev attempted to parse them. dracut now creates temporary rules files, and creates a file for udev's use when the file is considered complete.
BZ#610466
Running mkinitrd alone does not override an existing initramfs image. When this is attempted, the message stated that the --force parameter should be used, but mkinitrd only supported the short version -f of this parameter. --force was added to mkinitrd as the long version.
BZ#626389
When booting an IMSM/ISW RAID with dmraid, the mdadm package must be added to a system that has a kickstart minimal install with the noiswmd or rd_NO_MDIMSM parameters specified.
BZ#630911
When multipath is configured to use user-friendly names, it stores the binding between the wwid and the alias in /etc/multipath/bindings. multipath uses this file in initramfs when creating devices during early boot, and in the root file system during normal operation. These files were not synchronized during initramfs creation, which resulted in naming conflicts that prevented new multipath devices from being created after boot. To work around this, the bindings for the devices in /etc/multipath/bindings must be included in the initramfs. This can be done by running dracut -f.
BZ#636668
dracut did not include all multipath configuration files needed for multipath to include the root device in the multipath listing. dracut now copies over the entire /etc/multipath directory to the initramfs.
BZ#640979
dracut used all network configuration parameters from the kernel command line, but did not honor any configuration settings in the iBFT. dracut now parses the iBFT settings to set up the network if the ip=ibft parameter is specified on the kernel command line.
BZ#642083
dracut did not include multipath in the generated generic initramfs, if the host on which it was running had no multipath root device. multipath support is now added to the initramfs unconditionally.
BZ#645799
Previously, dracut had a hard-wired dependency on vconfig; this dependency is no longer required, and has been removed.
BZ#650959
When operating with LVM snapshot volumes, I/O errors could occur because the udev rules in the initramfs did not exclude those volumes and kept them busy. The udev rules in the initramfs were updated to honor the DM_UDEV_DISABLE_OTHER_RULES_FLAG, which fixes this issue.
BZ#669438
cryptsetup was required to perform verification when a system attempted to run in FIPS mode. However, the verification check failed because several checksum files were missing from initramfs, which resulted in all encrypted devices not being activated. The missing checksum files have been replaced, and this issue no longer occurs. Note however that the dracut-fips must be installed at initramfs creation time.
BZ#674238
When multipath ran in the initramfs with user_friendly_names set, if it did not find existing mappings in /etc/multipath/bindings, it created new mappings. These mappings could conflict with the user_friendly_names set in the normal filesystem's /etc/multipath/bindings file. dracut now starts the multipathd daemon with the new -B option so that multipath treats the initial bindings file as read-only.
BZ#675118
The USE_BIOSDEVNAME variable in the parse-biosdevname.sh script was not initialized correctly, which caused an unexpected operator error. This issue was discovered and corrected during development, and did not occur in any production system in the field.
BZ#676018
If a user started dracut with the -l or --local parameter, or set the dracut base directory via the dracutbasedir environment variable, dracut wrote its log to /tmp/dracut.log, which could possibly allow local users to overwrite arbitrary files that were writable to the user running dracut, via a symlink attack. dracut now stores the logfile in $HOME/dracut.log, when in -l or --local mode, if /var/log/dracut.log is not writeable.
BZ#678294
The /var/log/dracut.log file was not created automatically, preventing dracut from writing its logs. dracut now creates its log files if they do not exist.
BZ#691419
The boot parameter did not work when the machine was booted in FIPS mode, resulting in numerous mount errors, failed FIPS integrity tests, and dracut refusing to continue. This issue has been corrected, and the boot parameter can now be used to specify a boot device, as expected.
BZ#692843
If FIPS mode is enabled and the root partition is encrypted, /boot must reside on a non-encrypted, plain (no LVM or RAID) partition, which can be specified with boot=<boot partition> as a boot option on the kernel command line.
BZ#692939
After installing to a remote logical unit via Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE), the root device could not be found, resulting in kernel panic. This occurred because the MAC address and interface for the FCoE device was not defined correctly. Installing to a remote logical unit via FCoE now works.
BZ#696131
The fips.sh script did not wait for the boot drive to be created, which resulted in an error because the file system type did not exist yet. This has been corrected, and the script now waits for the boot drive to be identified.
Enhancements
BZ#634013
Previously all information about the network interfaces to boot from was read from the kernel command line. dracut was extended to use network interface configuration from the OptionROM, if fcoe=edd:nodcb or fcoe=edd:dcb is specified on the kernel command line. ifname= is not needed in this case.
BZ#645648
dracut has been updated to support the new kernel boot option, rdinsmodpost=[module], which allows a user to specify a kernel module to be loaded after all device drivers are loaded automatically.
BZ#670925
dracut now includes the kernel module aes-xts in the initramfs, adding support for FIPS-140.
BZ#677340
A new module, dracut-caps has been added to let users omit selected dracut capabilities, and set one or more sysctl parameters.
BZ#689694
Support has been added for the Emulex Tiger Shark adapter for iSCSI.
BZ#692781
Support for several Broadcom drivers (bnx2, bnx2x and bnx2i) has been added to dracut-network.
All users of dracut are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.
Updated dracut packages that add an enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The dracut package contains an event-driven initramfs generator infrastructure based around the udev device manager. The virtual file system, initramfs, is loaded together with the kernel at boot time and initializes the system, so it can read and boot from the root partition.
Enhancement
BZ#728549
The dm-mod and dm-crypt kernel modules were missing from the list of kernel modules which are pre-loaded for the FIPS-140 (Federal Information Processing Standards) check. With this update, these modules have been added to the list. This update also introduces the dracut-fips-aesni subpackage which should be installed if the aesni-intel module is used in FIPS mode.
Users of dracut are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which add this enhancement.

1.44. e2fsprogs

Updated e2fsprogs packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The e2fsprogs packages contain a number of utilities that create, check, modify, and correct inconsistencies in second extended (ext2) file systems. This includes e2fsck (which repairs file system inconsistencies after an unclean shut down), mke2fs (which initializes a partition to contain an empty ext2 file system), tune2fs (which modifies file system parameters), and most of the other core ext2fs file system utilities.
Bug Fixes
BZ#599338
The e2fsprogs package appeared to contain several regressions because of a number of type-punning issues caused by flags used during the process of building Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Additionally, e2fsprogs had a dependency on libcom_err that was not linked to a specific version of libcom_err. A specific version has been defined to prevent interoperability issues between packages.
BZ#631593
The badblocks command aborted with the error "badblocks: File too large while trying to determine device size" when attempting to run on a 16TB file system. This was caused by a bug in the badblocks command, which this bug fixes, resolving the issue.
BZ#654093
A device that is exactly 16T in size was too large to be opened by the resize2fs utility and attempting to resize some large file systems may remove the resize inode feature if no reserved blocks were left after the operation. This resulted in resize2fs to fail on that device, and resizing a file system close to 16T could remove the resize inode, making further resizing impossible. This patch treats 16T file systems as 16T - 4k, as mkfs does, allowing them to be manipulated by the resize2fs utility, resulting in ext3 and ext4 file systems now able to be resized on devices exactly 16T in size. Do not, however, remove resize inode even if 0 reserved blocks remain, so that subsequent downward resizes are still possible.
BZ#643390
When a value greater than INT_MAX (2147483647) was specified as the argument to mke2fs -G <number of groups>, the command did not complete. This was because the argument for int_log2() was "int", therefore when a value exceeding INT_MAX is specified for the -G option, the value of "arg" overflows. Also, e2fsprogs only supports 2^32 block file systems so asking for anything greater cannot be honored. Therefore, this patch rejects a number that overflows, and restricts it to INT_MAX+1 so the result does not wrap. This resolves the issue.
BZ#653234
The filefrag command occasionally returned an incorrect number of extensions, returning 0 instead of 1 when using the -v extension. In this patch, special-casing the number of extensions returned in verbose mode and skipping the printing of the header for columns resolves this issue.
All users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

1.45. ebtables

An updated ebtables package that adds one enhancement is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Ethernet bridge tables is a firewalling tool to transparently filter network traffic passing a bridge. The filtering possibilities are limited to link layer filtering and some basic filtering on higher network layers.

Enhancement

BZ#642394
Auditing support is added to create a kernel audit record that records the information flow between a host, guest, and other network entities.
All users requiring firewalling for Ethernet bridge tables are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which adds this enhancement.

1.46. eclipse

Updated eclipse packages that fix one security issue, several bugs, and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
The Eclipse software development environment provides a set of tools for C/C++ and Java development.

Security Fix

CVE-2010-4647
A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the Eclipse Help Contents web application. An attacker could use this flaw to perform a cross-site scripting attack against victims by tricking them into visiting a specially-crafted Eclipse Help URL.
The following Eclipse packages have been upgraded to the versions found in the official upstream Eclipse Helios SR1 release, providing a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous versions:
  • eclipse-linuxprofilingframework to 0.6.1. (BZ#669461)
  • eclipse to 3.6.1. (BZ#656329)
  • eclipse-cdt to 7.0.1. (BZ#656333)
  • eclipse-birt to 2.6.0. (BZ#656391)
  • eclipse-emf to 2.6.0. (BZ#656344)
  • eclipse-gef to 3.6.1. (BZ#656347)
  • eclipse-mylyn to 3.4.2. (BZ#656337)
  • eclipse-rse to 3.2. (BZ#656338)
  • eclipse-dtp to 1.8.1. (BZ#656397)
  • eclipse-changelog to 2.7.0. (BZ#669499)
  • eclipse-valgrind to 0.6.1. (BZ#669460)
  • eclipse-callgraph to 0.6.1. (BZ#669462)
  • eclipse-oprofile to 0.6.1. (BZ#670228)
In addition, the following updates were made to the dependencies of the Eclipse packages above:
  • jetty-eclipse to 6.1.24. (BZ#661845)
  • icu4j to 4.2.1. (BZ#656342)
  • sat4j to 2.2.0. (BZ#661842)
  • objectweb-asm to 3.2. (BZ#664019)

Bug Fixes

BZ#622713
Incorrect URIs for GNU Tools in the "Help Contents" window have been fixed.
BZ#622867
The profiling of binaries did not work if an Eclipse project was not in an Eclipse workspace. This update adds an automated test for external project profiling, which corrects this issue.
BZ#668890
Running a C/C++ application in Eclipse successfully terminated, but returned an I/O exception not related to the application itself in the Error Log window. With this update, the exception is no longer returned.
BZ#669819
The eclipse-mylyn package showed a "20100916-0100-e3x" qualifier. The qualifier has been modified to "v20100902-0100-e3x" to match the upstream version of eclipse-mylyn.
BZ#673174
Installing the eclipse-mylyn package failed and returned a "Resource temporarily unavailable" error message due to a bug in the packaging. This update fixes this bug and installation now works as expected.
BZ#678364
Building the eclipse-cdt package could fail due to an incorrect interaction with the local file system. Interaction with the local file system is now prevented and the build no longer fails.
BZ#679543
The libhover plug-in, provided by the eclipse-cdt package, used binary data to search for hover topics. The data location was specified externally as a URL which could cause an exception to occur on a system with no Internet access. This update modifies the plug-in so that it pulls the needed data from a local location.
Enhancements
The Eclipse IDE and Java Development Tools (JDT)
- rojects and folders can filter out resources in the workspace.
- new virtual folder and linked files support.
- the full set of UNIX file permissions is now supported.
- addition of the stop button to cancel long-running wizard tasks.
- Java editor now shows multiple quick-fixes via problem hover.
- new support for running JUnit version 4 tests.
- over 200 upstream bug fixes.
The Eclipse C/C++ Development Tooling (CDT)
- new Codan framework has been added for static code analysis.
- refactoring improvements such as stored refactoring history.
- compile and build errors now highlighted in the build console.
- switch to the new DSF debugger framework.
- new template view support.
- over 600 upstream bug fixes.
Users of eclipse should upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues and add these enhancements.

1.47. ecryptfs-utils

Updated ecryptfs-utils packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
eCryptfs is a stacked, cryptographic file system. It is transparent to the underlying file system and provides per-file granularity. eCryptfs is released as a Technology Preview for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
The setuid mount.ecryptfs_private utility allows users to mount an eCryptfs file system. This utility can only be run by users in the "ecryptfs" group.

Security Fixes

CVE-2011-1831
A race condition flaw was found in the way mount.ecryptfs_private checked the permissions of a requested mount point when mounting an encrypted file system. A local attacker could possibly use this flaw to escalate their privileges by mounting over an arbitrary directory.
CVE-2011-1832
A race condition flaw in umount.ecryptfs_private could allow a local attacker to unmount an arbitrary file system.
CVE-2011-1834
It was found that mount.ecryptfs_private did not handle certain errors correctly when updating the mtab (mounted file systems table) file, allowing a local attacker to corrupt the mtab file and possibly unmount an arbitrary file system.
CVE-2011-1835
An insecure temporary file use flaw was found in the ecryptfs-setup-private script. A local attacker could use this script to insert their own key that will subsequently be used by a new user, possibly giving the attacker access to the user's encrypted data if existing file permissions allow access.
CVE-2011-1837
A race condition flaw in mount.ecryptfs_private could allow a local attacker to overwrite arbitrary files.
CVE-2011-3145
A race condition flaw in the way temporary files were accessed in mount.ecryptfs_private could allow a malicious, local user to make arbitrary modifications to the mtab file.
CVE-2011-1833
A race condition flaw was found in the way mount.ecryptfs_private checked the permissions of the directory to mount. A local attacker could use this flaw to mount (and then access) a directory they would otherwise not have access to. Note: The fix for this issue is incomplete until a kernel-space change is made. Future Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 kernel updates will correct this issue.
Red Hat would like to thank the Ubuntu Security Team for reporting these issues. The Ubuntu Security Team acknowledges Vasiliy Kulikov of Openwall and Dan Rosenberg as the original reporters of CVE-2011-1831, CVE-2011-1832, and CVE-2011-1833; Dan Rosenberg and Marc Deslauriers as the original reporters of CVE-2011-1834; Marc Deslauriers as the original reporter of CVE-2011-1835; and Vasiliy Kulikov of Openwall as the original reporter of CVE-2011-1837.
Users of ecryptfs-utils are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.

1.48. edac-utils

Updated edac-utils packages that fix one bug and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise 6.
EDAC is the current set of drivers in the Linux kernel that handles detection of ECC errors from memory controllers for most chipsets on the x86, AMD64, and Intel 64 architectures. The user-space component consists of an initscript which ensures that EDAC drivers and DIMM labels are loaded at system startup, as well as a library and utility for reporting current error counts from the EDAC sysfs files.
Bug Fix
BZ#632665
Previously, the edac-utils initscript did not use the standard error codes of other initscripts because several mandatory actions were missing. This update implements the initscript actions "condrestart", "try-restart", "force-reload" and sets the return values for each action accordingly. Now, the initscript uses the standard error code.
Enhancement
BZ#640113
This update extends the maximum number of channels from 2 to 6, in order to allow it to work with some designs that have 4 channels on FB-DIMM motherboards, e.g. the ones with Intel 7300 chipset. By default, this update identifies the motherboard via BIOS DMI board information. If not available, it will fallback to use DMI system information.
Note: the improvements from upstream version 0.16 are now added to edac-utils, including new motherboard labels, an option to delay the motherboard write labels, and a better parser to retrieve memory and vendor information from the system.
All EDAC users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug and add this enhancement.

1.49. efibootmgr

An updated efibootmgr package that fixes one bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The efibootmgr utility is responsible for the boot loader installation on Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) systems.
Bug Fix
BZ#612280
Due to missing support for 4KB disk sectors, an attempt to use the efibootmgr utility to create a boot option on such a device caused the utility to fail with the following error message:
    Error: no partition information on disk [device].
    Cowardly refusing to create a boot option.
This update adapts the efibootmgr utility to provide support for 4KB disk sectors, resolving this issue.
All users of efibootmgr are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes this bug.

1.50. elfutils

Updated elfutils packages that resolve an issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The elfutils package contains utilities and libraries for working with compiled binary files. Its libraries are used by the SystemTap instrumentation system found in the systemtap package.
Bug Fix
BZ#652858
After prelink had been run on the system, using SystemTap user-space probes that targeted functions or statements in certain shared libraries, or executables based on a separate debuginfo file, caused resolution to the wrong PC location in a linked binary. As a result, the intended probes failed to fire at the correct place in the program, which could have caused the program to crash or misbehave due to a corrupted instruction sequence resulting from incorrect breakpoint insertions. With this update, the libdwfl library code (the libdw.so shared object library) was adjusted to use a more reliable method of compensating for prelink's effect on the address layout of a binary when aligning a runtime PC address with an address computed separately from the separated debuginfo file. SystemTap probes should now work the same on prelinked binaries as they would on binaries that have not been prelinked.
All users of SystemTap and elfutils are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve this issue.

1.51. emacs

Updated emacs packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
GNU Emacs is a powerful, customizable, self-documenting text editor. It provides special code editing features, a scripting language (elisp), and the capability to read email and news.
Bug Fixes
BZ#612385
Prior to this update, Emacs incorrectly displayed Japanese documents using JIS X 0213:2004 (JIS2004) compliant fonts, even though other parts of the system prefer and use older fonts. This update lowers the priority of JIS X 0213:2004 to ensure the consistent use of fonts in the system.
BZ#613759
Previously, the emacs packages required the aspell and hunspell spell checkers to be installed. Since the use of a spell checker is completely optional, this update removes aspell and hunspell from the list of dependencies, so that Emacs can now be installed without these packages.
All users of emacs are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

1.52. epydoc

An updated epydoc package that fixes a bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Epydoc is a tool for generating API documentation for Python modules, based on their docstrings. A lightweight markup language called epytext can be used to format docstrings, and to add information about specific fields, such as parameters and instance variables. Epydoc also understands docstrings written in ReStructuredText, Javadoc and plaintext.
Bug Fix
BZ#657567
Previously, the summary extractor of reStructuredText did not work properly and the documentation process failed. Due to this behavior, building packages could fail. This update resolves this problem. Packages now build successfully.
All users of epydoc are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves this issue.

1.53. evolution

Updated evolution packages that fix various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Evolution is the GNOME email, calendar, contact management and communications application. The components which make up Evolution are tightly integrated with one another and act as a seamless personal information-management (PIM) tool.
Bug Fixes
BZ#696881
When a user tried to migrate their mail folder settings after upgrading to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, or restore a backup from the previous version of Evolution, Evolution sometimes terminated unexpectedly. This bug has been fixed and no longer occurs during the migration process.
BZ#585931
When a user created or edited a task in Evolution, the tooltip for the print icon in the toolbar was missing. This tooltip has been added and is now correctly displayed when hovering over the print icon.
BZ#628964
When printing the "Day" view of a calendar in Evolution to a Postscript file, the selected day and month name overlapped the line below. The issue has been resolved; overlaps no longer take place.
BZ#632968
When a user selected the "Submit bug report" option in the "Help" menu, a spurious "Bug Buddy is not installed" error message appeared. Because Bug Buddy is not a component of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, the menu option to submit a bug was removed.
BZ#633600
When creating a mail account in the Evolution Account Assistant using the POP protocol, the keyboard shortcut for "Delete after 7 days" (Alt+D) did not work. With this update, the GUI widget accepts the keyboard shortcut for the "Delete after 7 days" functionality and entering the shortcut now works as expected.
BZ#633629
The "Create a Memo" item from the "Message" menu was active when it was not supposed to be. As a consequence, Evolution terminated unexpectedly when the user selected this item. With this update, the "Create a Memo" item is deactivated when it is supposed to be, with the result that the user can no longer crash Evolution by selecting it.
BZ#666875
When viewing an email message larger than the maximum value defined in the settings Edit -> Preferences -> Mail Preferences -> "Do not format messages when text size exceeds [n KB]" caused Evolution to terminate unexpectedly. This bug has been fixed and viewing a message larger than the set value no longer causes Evolution to crash.
BZ#667083
When a user created a calendar meeting in Evolution with at least 16 attendees and right-clicked "Reply to all", the application terminated unexpectedly sometimes. The problem was with the reallocation of memory in glib2 and it has been fixed. Replying to all attendees of a calendar meeting now works as expected.
BZ#633189
When a user clicked into the input field under the Summary header in Task or Memo section in Evolution, and switched its input method to any language managed by ibus (such as Chinese), foreign characters could not be entered. The fix involves calling some functions in the correct order so the events for the input method are registered properly.
BZ#628882, BZ#630316, BZ#632998, BZ#638643
When using one of four Asian locales (ml_IN, hi_IN, ta_IN, zh_TW), the following problems occurred in Evolution Assistant: differing translations for the label and button "Forward" and "Finish", a missing and erroneous translation for the "Forward" label, and the ZWJ/ZWNJ characters visible by mistake. With this update, corrected translations has been provided.
BZ#633181
In the "Evolution Appointment" dialog, when using the Chinese Simplified locale (zh_CN), there was an erroneous translation on the "for" button. The translation has been modified and Evolution now displays a proper button text translation.
Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and correct several localization issues.

1.54. evolution-data-server

An updated evolution-data-server package that fixes several bugs is now available.
The evolution-data-server package provides a unified back end for applications which interact with contacts, task and calendar information. Evolution Data Server was originally developed as a back end for Evolution, but is now used by various other applications.
This updated evolution-data-server package provides fixes for the following bugs:
  • cannot enter date in New->Appointment dialog with or_IN language (BZ#629919)
  • crash when using Google address book (BZ#634949)
  • folder unread count doesn't update properly on search folders (BZ#657117)
  • crash when receiving On The Web calendar items (BZ#660356)
  • crash when adding contact to a contact list (BZ#666879)
Users are advised to upgrade to this updated evolution-data-server package, which resolves these issues.

1.55. evolution-mapi

An updated evolution-mapi package that fixes a crash is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The MAPI extension for Evolution (evolution-mapi) allows Evolution to interact with MS Exchange 2007 servers.
Bug Fix
BZ#66642
When accessing an address book on an Exchange 2007 server, a flaw in the MAPI extension caused the evolution-data-server process to occasionally crash. This was because evolution-mapi mistook EDataBookView as a GObject, instead of a bonobo_object, and as a result was reffing/unreffing it with g_object_ref/g_object_unref. This patch uses the proper functions for ref/unref, resolving the issue.
Users are advised to upgrade to this updated evolution-mapi package, which fixes this problem.

1.56. fakechroot

Updated fakechroot packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The fakechroot utility allows a user to run programs in an environment that enables the use of the chroot command without the need for root privileges.
Bug Fix
BZ#598451
Prior to this update, the fakechroot packages were marked as multilib, which allowed users to install these packages for multiple architectures at the same time. However, this feature is not fully supported by fakechroot. Since the 32-bit version of is not actually needed, this update adds the "ExclusiveArch: x86-64" tag to the RPM spec file, so that the fakechroot packages are now available only for the 64-bit x86 architecture.
All users of fakechroot are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.
Updated fakechroot packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The fakechroot utility lets you run programs in a fake chroot environment without superuser privileges.
Bug Fix
BZ#730647
Due to multilib problems, the fakeroot command was only built on 64-bit architectures as a workaround, one which prevented the RPM package from being built on other architectures. This update resolves the multilib problems so that fakeroot now builds successfully on all architectures.
All users of fakechroot should upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

1.57. fcoe-utils

An updated fcoe-utils package that fixes several bugs and adds one enhancement is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The fcoe-utils package allows users to use Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE). The package contains the fcoeadm command line tool for configuring FCoE interfaces, and the fcoemon service to configure DCB (Data Center Bridging) Ethernet QoS filters.
The fcoe-utils package has been upgraded to upstream version 1.0.18, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#672453, BZ#691613)
Bug Fixes
BZ#645917
Previously, in a particular setup with multipath and FCoE services, the system sometimes became unresponsive during shutdown or reboot, and a hard reboot was required to get the system back up. Now, an additional FCoE root filesystem check has been added to the init script and the system no longer hangs during reboot or shutdown in this scenario.
BZ#658076
Sometimes, FCoE devices are not discovered immediately by the system. As a consequence, some FCoE partitions were previously not automounted after a boot. With this update, the FCoE init script waits for a certain amount of time (65 seconds by default), which is enough for most FCoE partitions to be discovered and mounted during the boot.
BZ#678487
Running the fcoeadm tool without the FCoE stack loaded caused the fcoeadm tool to terminate with a backtrace when it tried to free an unallocated pointer. With this update, only successfully allocated pointers are freed and the fcoeadm tool returns a proper error message otherwise.
BZ#689631
After VLAN discovery was tried unsuccessfully 10 times, the default FCoE driver for an interface was used instead of the preferred one. With this update, VLAN discovery is retried indefinitely and FCoE interfaces are now created only upon VLAN discovery, with proper drivers.
BZ#623567
For several fcoe-utils executables, there were minor inconsistencies in the documentation between their command help output and their man pages. With this update, the documentation has been updated and the man pages and help output are now consistent.
BZ#645796
The vconfig package had been marked for removal from the distribution, but the fcoe-utils package required it at runtime. With this update, this dependency has been removed in favor of the iproute package.
BZ#680578
When an FCoE VLAN interface was restarted, the FCoE interface was not re-enabled after the VLAN interface was brought up again. This bug has been fixed and the FCoE interface is now automatically enabled after the VLAN interface is brought up.
Enhancement
BZ#669211
With this update, the fcoe-utils package introduces a new SUPPORTED_DRIVERS configuration option to list all the low-level drivers that can potentially claim a network device. The package also uses the new sysfs module path introduced by the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 kernel update.
Users of fcoe-utils are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes these bugs and adds this enhancement.

1.58. febootstrap

Updated febootstrap packages that add two enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
febootstrap is used to create a basic Red Hat Enterprise Linux or Fedora filesystem, and builds initramfs (initrd.img) or filesystem images.
The febootstrap packages have been upgraded to upstream version 2.11, which provides a number of bug fixes and one enhancement over the previous version. (BZ#628849)
Enhancements
BZ#669839
This update provides the subpackage febootstrap-supermin-helper for the runtime helper program. Now, libguestfs runtime depends only on febootstrap-supermin-helper, which reduces the dependencies.
All febootstrap users are advised upgrade to these updated packages, which add these enhancements.

1.59. fence-agents

An updated fence-agents package that fixes bugs, adds support for new hardware and Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Red Hat fence agents are a collection of scripts to handle remote power management for several devices. They allow failed or unreachable nodes to be forcibly restarted and removed from the cluster.
Bug Fixes
BZ#618703, BZ#623266
Metadata generation has been corrected in order to provide information for all known parameters for each fencing agent.
BZ#619096
Port is now a synonym of module_name for fence_drac5, making it consistent with other fencing agents.
BZ#648892
Information on how to use fence_ipmi with HP iLO version 3 has been added to the manual page.
BZ#635824
The fence_egenera manual page has been improved.
BZ#640343
fence_scsi now works when devices report "Unit Attention".
BZ#644385
fence_scsi now verifies action results.
BZ#644389
fence_scsi now correctly identifies device mapper multipath devices.
BZ#670910
fence_scsi pattern matching has been improved.
BZ#672597
fence_scsi now logs errors whenever a command fails.
Enhancements
BZ#580492, BZ#678904
Support for Cisco UCS blade systems is now provided.
BZ#614046
It is now possible for one node to delay fencing in a two-node cluster.
BZ#655764
Fence_ipmilan can now use the "diag" option.
BZ#595383
The package has been updated to provide a fencing agent that is able to communicate with Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager, allowing virtual machines to be fenced.
BZ#642671
For Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) devices, the "power_wait" delay can now be adjusted in order to support newer iLO 3 firmware.
BZ#642235, BZ#680170
Brocade 200E, Brocade 300, Brocade 4100, Brocade 4900, and Brocade 5100 fencing devices are now supported by the fence_brocade agent, and can be used with both Red Hat High Availability and Red Hat Resilient Storage.
BZ#653504
An issue with fence_scsi where the key was erroneously reported as 0 has been addressed.
BZ#678522
fence_wti now correctly handles large (>20) port switches.
BZ#681669, BZ#681674
fence_rhevm has been updated to the current RHEVM development API.
BZ#682715
fence_cisco_ucs was missing from the fence-agents package, but is now included.
All users requiring any of the changes noted above should upgrade to this new package, which fixes these issues and adds these enhancements.

1.60. fence-virt

Updated fence-virt packages that provide a bug fix and an enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The fence-virt packages provide a fencing agent for virtual machines as well as a host agent which processes fencing requests.
Bug Fix
BZ#667170
The manual pages now correctly refer to "fence_virt.conf" instead of "fence_virtd.conf."
Enhancement
BZ#690582
Fence-virtd now operates with newer versions of QMF.
All users of fence-virt are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which address these issues.

1.61. file

Updated file packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The file command is used to identify a particular file according to the type of data contained in the file.
Bug Fixes
BZ#594083
Prior to this update, the file utility could be unable to recognize Python scripts correctly. This update improves the file type recognition, and Python scripts are now identified as expected.
BZ#608686
In accordance with POSIX standards, when the file utility is used on a file that does not exist, cannot be read, or is of an unknown type, it returns 0 exit code. This update extends the manual page to document this behavior.
BZ#610795
The file utility has been updated to recognize the WebM media container.
BZ#637782
The file utility has been updated to recognize the ZIP64 file format.
BZ#643046
The file utility has been updated to recognize volume_key escrow packets.
BZ#670125
Due to an error in a magic pattern, the file utility incorrectly identified GFS file systems as GFS2. With this update, the magic pattern has been corrected, and GFS file systems are now identified as expected.
All users of file are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

1.62. fipscheck

Updated fipscheck packages which relocate the library from /usr to /lib or /lib64 are now available.
FIPSCheck is a library used to verify the integrity of modules validated under FIPS-140-2. The fipscheck package provides helper binaries for creating and verifying HMAC-SHA256 checksum files.
Enhancement
BZ#669077
The fipscheck library can be linked to binaries (such as cryptsetup) which have to operate when /usr is not mounted. With this update, the fipscheck library relocates from /usr to /lib or /lib64 (depending on the underlying architecture) to allow linking to such binaries.
All fipscheck users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which add this enhancement.

1.63. firefox

Updated firefox packages that fix several security issues and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser. XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Mozilla Firefox.

Security Fixes

CVE-2011-2377
A flaw was found in the way Firefox handled malformed JPEG images. A website containing a malicious JPEG image could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox.
CVE-2011-0083, CVE-2011-0085, CVE-2011-2363
Multiple dangling pointer flaws were found in Firefox. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox.
CVE-2011-2364, CVE-2011-2365, CVE-2011-2374, CVE-2011-2375, CVE-2011-2376
Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox.
CVE-2011-2371
An integer overflow flaw was found in the way Firefox handled JavaScript Array objects. A website containing malicious JavaScript could cause Firefox to execute that JavaScript with the privileges of the user running Firefox.
CVE-2011-2373
A use-after-free flaw was found in the way Firefox handled malformed JavaScript. A website containing malicious JavaScript could cause Firefox to execute that JavaScript with the privileges of the user running Firefox.
CVE-2011-2362
It was found that Firefox could treat two separate cookies as interchangeable if both were for the same domain name but one of those domain names had a trailing "." character. This violates the same-origin policy and could possibly lead to data being leaked to the wrong domain.
For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security advisories for Firefox 3.6.18.
Bug Fix
BZ#698313
With previous versions of Firefox on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, the "background-repeat" CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) property did not work (such images were not displayed and repeated as expected).
All Firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Firefox version 3.6.18, which corrects these issues. After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes to take effect.
Updated firefox packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser. XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Mozilla Firefox.

Security Fixes

CVE-2011-2982
Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox.
CVE-2011-0084
A dangling pointer flaw was found in the Firefox Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) text manipulation routine. A web page containing a malicious SVG image could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox.
CVE-2011-2378
A dangling pointer flaw was found in the way Firefox handled a certain Document Object Model (DOM) element. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox.
CVE-2011-2981
A flaw was found in the event management code in Firefox. A website containing malicious JavaScript could cause Firefox to execute that JavaScript with the privileges of the user running Firefox.
CVE-2011-2983
A flaw was found in the way Firefox handled malformed JavaScript. A web page containing malicious JavaScript could cause Firefox to access already freed memory, causing Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox.
CVE-2011-2984
It was found that a malicious web page could execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox if the user dropped a tab onto the malicious web page.
For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security advisories for Firefox 3.6.20.
All Firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Firefox version 3.6.20, which corrects these issues. After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes to take effect.
Updated firefox packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact.
Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser. XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Mozilla Firefox.
It was found that a Certificate Authority (CA) issued a fraudulent HTTPS certificate. This update renders any HTTPS certificates signed by that CA as untrusted, except for a select few. The now untrusted certificates that were issued before July 1, 2011 can be manually re-enabled and used again at your own risk in Firefox; however, affected certificates issued after this date cannot be re-enabled or used. (BZ#734316)
All Firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch. After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes to take effect.
Updated firefox packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact.
Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser. XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Mozilla Firefox.
The RHSA-2011:1242 Firefox update rendered HTTPS certificates signed by a certain Certificate Authority (CA) as untrusted, but made an exception for a select few. This update removes that exception, rendering every HTTPS certificate signed by that CA as untrusted. (BZ#735483)
All Firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Firefox version 3.6.22. After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes to take effect.
Updated firefox packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser. XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Mozilla Firefox.

Security Fixes

CVE-2011-2995
Several flaws were found in the processing of malformed web content. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox.
CVE-2011-2372
A flaw was found in the way Firefox processed the "Enter" keypress event. A malicious web page could present a download dialog while the key is pressed, activating the default "Open" action. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability by causing the browser to open malicious web content.
CVE-2011-3000
A flaw was found in the way Firefox handled Location headers in redirect responses. Two copies of this header with different values could be a symptom of a CRLF injection attack against a vulnerable server. Firefox now treats two copies of the Location, Content-Length, or Content-Disposition header as an error condition.
CVE-2011-2999
A flaw was found in the way Firefox handled frame objects with certain names. An attacker could use this flaw to cause a plug-in to grant its content access to another site or the local file system, violating the same-origin policy.
CVE-2011-2998
An integer underflow flaw was found in the way Firefox handled large JavaScript regular expressions. A web page containing malicious JavaScript could cause Firefox to access already freed memory, causing Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox.
For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security advisories for Firefox 3.6.23.
All Firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Firefox version 3.6.23, which corrects these issues. After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes to take effect.
Updated firefox packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
Mozilla Firefox is an open source web browser. XULRunner provides the XUL Runtime environment for Mozilla Firefox.

Security Fixes

CVE-2011-3647
A flaw was found in the way Firefox handled certain add-ons. A web page containing malicious content could cause an add-on to grant itself full browser privileges, which could lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the user running Firefox.
CVE-2011-3648
A cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw was found in the way Firefox handled certain multibyte character sets. A web page containing malicious content could cause Firefox to run JavaScript code with the permissions of a different website.
CVE-2011-3650
A flaw was found in the way Firefox handled large JavaScript scripts. A web page containing malicious JavaScript could cause Firefox to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running Firefox.
For technical details regarding these flaws, refer to the Mozilla security advisories for Firefox 3.6.24.
All Firefox users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain Firefox version 3.6.24, which corrects these issues. After installing the update, Firefox must be restarted for the changes to take effect.

1.64. firstaidkit

Updated firstaidkit packages that add an enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
FirstAidKit is a tool that runs automated diagnostics of an installed Red Hat Enterprise Linux system.
Enhancement
BZ#584677
These updated packages introduce a new manual page with an outline of the basic concepts and format of the main configuration file (that is, /etc/firstaidkit/firstaidkit.conf by default). Note that this manual page does not replace a detailed description of available configuration options in the configuration file itself.
Users of firstaidkit are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which add this enhancement.

1.65. firstboot

Updated firstboot packages that fix two bugs and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The firstboot utility runs after installation. It guides the user through a series of steps that allows for easier configuration of the machine.
Bug Fixes
BZ#658869
Previously, no screen was provided to change the root password in firstboot. Due to this lack, users had to change the settings of system-config-users to the root password within the Advanced window of firstboot's create user screen. This update adds a module to change the root password. Now, users can view a set the root password in firstboot, if run with the option "the --reconfig".
BZ#659451
Previously, users could not skip the user creation screen. Due to this lack, users had to create a user account with an UID number above or equal to 500 to continue to the next step of the first boot process. With this update, the check for valid user accounts in the system checks whether a user account with a valid login shell is present and not only user accounts with an UID number above or equal to 500. If there's no such user account present firstboot shows a warning, but allows the user to go to the next step. Now, users can skip the user creation part of firstboot.
Enhancement
BZ#463564
Previously, the firstboot utility did not run automatically after installation on IBM's System/390 architecture. Due to this issue, users had to run firstboot manually. This update adds automatic execution. Now, the firstboot utility runs automatically when the root user logs in to the system for the first time with a capable terminal.
All firstboot users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and adds this enhancement.

1.66. foomatic

An updated foomatic package that fixes one security issue is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
Foomatic is a comprehensive, spooler-independent database of printers, printer drivers, and driver descriptions. The package also includes spooler-independent command line interfaces to manipulate queues and to print files and manipulate print jobs. foomatic-rip is a print filter written in C.

Security Fix

CVE-2011-2964
An input sanitization flaw was found in the foomatic-rip print filter. An attacker could submit a print job with the username, title, or job options set to appear as a command line option that caused the filter to use a specified PostScript printer description (PPD) file, rather than the administrator-set one. This could lead to arbitrary code execution with the privileges of the "lp" user.
All foomatic users should upgrade to this updated package, which contains a backported patch to resolve this issue.

1.67. freeradius

Updated freeradius packages that fix two bugs and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
FreeRADIUS is an open source RADIUS server which allows RADIUS clients to perform authentication against the RADIUS server. The RADIUS server may optionally perform accounting of it's operations via the RADIUS protocol.
The FreeRADIUS packages have been upgraded to upstream version 2.1.10, which provides a number of bug fixes over the previous version. (BZ#644100)
Bug Fixes
BZ#689045
Previously, the FreeRADIUS server failed to start when the rlm_perl or rlm_python modules were used due to unresolved symbols encountered by the dynamic loader. This update uses the dynamic loader option which must be explicitly turned on via lt_dladvise to allow loaded modules to globally export their symbols. Now, rlm_perl and rlm_python FreeRADIUS modules are successfully loaded and the FreeRADIUS server successfully starts in this configuration.
Enhancement
BZ#599528
This update makes the radtest script available for testing with IPv6.
All FreeRADIUS users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

1.68. freetype

Updated freetype packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
FreeType is a free, high-quality, portable font engine that can open and manage font files. It also loads, hints, and renders individual glyphs efficiently. These packages provide the FreeType 2 font engine.

Security Fix

CVE-2011-0226
A flaw was found in the way the FreeType font rendering engine processed certain PostScript Type 1 fonts. If a user loaded a specially-crafted font file with an application linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to crash or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.
Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. The X server must be restarted (log out, then log back in) for this update to take effect.
Updated freetype packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
FreeType is a free, high-quality, portable font engine that can open and manage font files. It also loads, hints, and renders individual glyphs efficiently. The freetype packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 provide both the FreeType 1 and FreeType 2 font engines. The freetype packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 provide only the FreeType 2 font engine.

Security Fix

CVE-2011-3256
Multiple input validation flaws were found in the way FreeType processed bitmap font files. If a specially-crafted font file was loaded by an application linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.
Note: These issues only affected the FreeType 2 font engine.
Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct these issues. The X server must be restarted (log out, then log back in) for this update to take effect.
Updated freetype packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
FreeType is a free, high-quality, portable font engine that can open and manage font files. It also loads, hints, and renders individual glyphs efficiently. The freetype packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 provide both the FreeType 1 and FreeType 2 font engines. The freetype packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 provide only the FreeType 2 font engine.

Security Fix

CVE-2011-3439
Multiple input validation flaws were found in the way FreeType processed CID-keyed fonts. If a specially-crafted font file was loaded by an application linked against FreeType, it could cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.
Note: These issues only affected the FreeType 2 font engine.
Users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct these issues. The X server must be restarted (log out, then log back in) for this update to take effect.

1.69. fuse

Updated fuse packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) can implement a fully functional file system in a user-space program. These packages provide the mount utility, fusermount, the tool used to mount FUSE file systems.

Security Fix

CVE-2010-3879, CVE-2011-0541, CVE-2011-0542, CVE-2011-0543
Multiple flaws were found in the way fusermount handled the mounting and unmounting of directories when symbolic links were present. A local user in the fuse group could use these flaws to unmount file systems, which they would otherwise not be able to unmount and that were not mounted using FUSE, via a symbolic link attack.
Note: The util-linux-ng RHBA-2011:0699 update must also be installed to fully correct the above flaws.
All users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.

1.70. gcc

A gcc update that resolves several compiler bugs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The gcc packages include C, C++, Java, Fortran, Objective C, Objective C++ and Ada 95 GNU compilers, along with related support libraries.
Bug Fixes
BZ#630166
These updated packages provide support for the "-mcmodel=medium" and "-mcmodel=large" options on the 64-bit PowerPC architecture. These new options provide the ability to extend the TOC addressing space up to 2GB.
BZ#632366
gcc now has the ability to emit pre-fetch instructions for "memcmp", "memcpy" and "memset" in-line expansions when optimizing for IBM System z10 CPUs.
BZ#624889
Previously, leaf functions that accessed TLS variables in the global or local dynamic model were not generating a large enough stack frame on PowerPC 64-bit. In this updated package, the generated stack frame is now larger than 112 bytes, resolving this issue.
BZ#675132
Previously a regression in the gfortran compiler was causing the "-M" option to not be recognized. In these updated packages the "-M" option is now recognized and functions as expected.
BZ#592502
Previously, the optimizations performed when calculating induction variables during the induction variable optimization (ivopts) pass were not as efficient as previous releases. In these updated packages, the optimizations performed during the induction variable optimization (ivopts) pass is improved.
BZ#618258
Previously, if a Java application built with gcj attempted to submit a print job to a print queue that was disabled, the process would enter a busy loop. This update fixes this issue by first checking if the print queue is null before attempting to send it a print job.
BZ#659582
Previously, using "always_inline" on a function when compiling with "-g" without any "-O" options would cause the compiler to insert debugging annotations in unexpected locations. Consequently, the unexpected annotations caused the compiler to crash with an internal error. In these updated packages, the compiler is modified to properly handle attributes which change optimization levels, such as always_inline, properly.
BZ#632370
This update provides code optimizations for the IBM System z architecture.
BZ#635015
The mask operand for the AVX mask load/store is fixed.
All users of gcc are advised to upgrade to these updated packages which address these issues.

1.71. gdb

Updated gdb packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The GNU debugger, gdb, is a debugger for programs written in C, C++, and other languages.
The gdb package has been upgraded to upstream version 7.2, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#649030)
Bug Fixes
BZ#611435
GDB crashed when reading a kernel core dump file because the value of temporary current inferior process was set to minus_one_ptid (all processes). The value is now set to null_ptid (no processes) and GDB displays the vmcore file.
BZ#625239
When the gcore utility created a core file for an executable compiled with the "-Wl,-z,relro" parameter, GDB was unable to open it. This occurred because the file did not contain the list of shared libraries. Such core files now contain the shared library list and can be opened.
BZ#629236
GDB Python's pretty-printing feature provides an easily-readable view on complex C++ STL data structures. GDB crashed when displaying such structures. This occurred when the pretty printer threw a Python exception and GDB crashed due to a NULL pointer dereference. GDB now displays the easily-readable view of any C++ STL data structure correctly.
BZ#632259
GDB aborted unexpectedly if you set breakpoints on GNU-IFUNC functions and started the debugged program because the breakpoints could not resolve the target functions of the GNU-IFUNC functions at program startup. Breakpoints on GNU-IFUNC functions are now resolved when the program calls the target function.
BZ#636298
With GDB, you can modify VSX registers on PowerPC platforms. Changing some VSX registers corrupted other VSX registers. GDB now sets VSX registers independently.
BZ#639645
GDB aborted unexpectedly when an inferior shared library list changed during an inferior function call. This occurred because GDB reset all breakpoints including the temporary breakpoint, which was created by the call, and attempted to delete the breakpoint again after the call finished. The temporary breakpoint now remains valid during the entire inferior function call.
BZ#639647
GDB could have hung when debugging multithreaded programs with the setuid() function because the siginfo_t information associated with a signal number got lost. GDB now no longer resubmits or reorders signals and the siginfo_t value is preserved.
BZ#661773
GDB terminated unexpectedly after user run the "info program" command because a change of the shared library list corrupted the data in the internal GDB structure "bpstat". The structure now contains correct data even after a change in the shared library list and "info program" works as expected.
BZ#663449
Test suite file break-interp.exp reported for PowerPC platforms several FAIL results. A number of fixes have been applied to address these issues and the test suite for PowerPC now runs successfully.
BZ#682891
GDB crashed when attempting to access dynamic types, such as variable length arrays, using the GDB/MI interface. GDB now no longer crashes under these circumstances.
BZ#688788
On the i686 architecture, the awatch and rwatch commands printed an error when entered before the program-to-be-debugged started. GDB now by default debugs on the native architecture and the commands can be used before the program-to-be-debugged starts.
Enhancements
BZ#562758
Debugged programs may use C++ templates. C++ templates provide template symbols for instantiation of classes and functions. GDB debugged the template instances but the template symbols were not accessible. GDB now displays the template symbols while debugging the template instances.
BZ#609782
Fortran supports array slicing. GDB could not slice multidimensional arrays. GDB now supports slicing of such arrays.
BZ#673696
GDB did not display pthread_t for threads found in the core. GDB now displays pthread_t for the threads.
Users are advised to upgrade to these packages, which resolve the bugs and add the enhancements.

1.72. ghostscript

Updated ghostscript packages that fix various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Ghostscript suite provides a PostScript interpreter, a set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library, which implements the graphics capabilities in the PostScript language), and an interpreter for PDF files. Ghostscript translates PostScript code into many common, bitmapped formats, like those understood by most printers and displays. This enables users to display PostScript files and print them on non-PostScript printers.
Bug Fixes
BZ#621118
Previously, including a large JBIG2 compressed image in the PDF input file could cause the pdf2ps conversion utility to terminate unexpectedly with a segmentation fault. This was caused by the fact that the result of the "jbig2_image_new" function call was not always checked properly. This error has been fixed, and the inclusion of JBIG2 images no longer causes pdf2ps to crash.
BZ#629562
Due to incorrect object management, Ghostscript could attempt to read from uninitialized memory, which could lead to a segmentation fault. This update applies a backported patch that addresses this issue, and Ghostscript no longer crashes.
BZ#629941
The Fontmap.local file installed with the ghostscript package allows a system administrator to override font substitutions. However, previous versions of the Ghostscript suite did not use this file at all. This error has been fixed, and the file is now used as expected.
BZ#675692
Previously, using the ps2pdf utility to convert a PostScript file to the PDF format caused the resulting document to be created without working hyperlinks. This update applies an upstream patch that resolves this issue, and ps2pdf now crates PDF files with correct hyperlinks.
All users of ghostscript are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.
Updated ghostscript packages that fix a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Ghostscript suite provides a PostScript interpreter, a set of C procedures (the Ghostscript library, which implements the graphics capabilities in the PostScript language), and an interpreter for PDF files. Ghostscript translates PostScript code into many common, bitmapped formats, like those understood by most printers and displays. This enables users to display PostScript files and print them on non-PostScript printers.
Bug Fix
BZ#710651
Previously, the default paper size was selected in portrait orientation when printing documents in landscape orientation. Consequently, the output was printed in portrait orientation and the content was cropped on the right side. With this update, if the paper size matches in landscape mode, that paper size is selected and the landscape orientation is selected for printing.
All users of ghostscript are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

1.73. gimp

Updated gimp packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
The GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program) is an image composition and editing program.

Security Fixes

CVE-2010-4543
A heap-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the GIMP's Paint Shop Pro (PSP) image file plug-in. An attacker could create a specially-crafted PSP image file that, when opened, could cause the PSP plug-in to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the GIMP.
CVE-2010-4540, CVE-2010-4541, CVE-2010-4542
A stack-based buffer overflow flaw was found in the GIMP's Lightning, Sphere Designer, and Gfig image filters. An attacker could create a specially-crafted Lightning, Sphere Designer, or Gfig filter configuration file that, when opened, could cause the relevant plug-in to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the GIMP.
Users of the GIMP are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. The GIMP must be restarted for the update to take effect.

1.74. glib2

Updated glib2 packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
GLib is a low-level core library that forms the basis for projects such as GTK+ and GNOME. It provides data structure handling for C, portability wrappers, and interfaces for such runtime functionality as an event loop, threads, dynamic loading, and an object system.
Bug Fix
BZ#648498
Previously, snapshots from the Network File System (NFS) mounted home directories located on Network Appliance (NetApp) filers were treated as real mounts and were displayed on the desktop. Due to this behavior, users could not hide or unmount these items. By default, the GNOME desktop treated all mounts under user home directories as custom and put their icons on the desktop. This update follows common practice and hides mounts with path elements that start with a dot.
All users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

1.75. glibc

Updated glibc packages that fix numerous bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The glibc packages contain the standard C libraries used by multiple programs on the system. These packages contain the standard C and the standard math libraries. Without these two libraries, a Linux system cannot function properly.
Bug Fixes
BZ#646954
Due to an error in glibc libraries, a race condition could occur when traversing a list of currently loaded shared libraries, causing an application to terminate with an error. This error has been fixed, the race condition no longer occurs, and the list of shared libraries can now be traversed as expected.
BZ#642584
On 64-bit x86 systems with support for AVX vector registers, an insufficient alignment of the thread descriptor could cause an application to crash during symbol resolution. With this update, the "TCB_ALIGNMENT" value has been increased to 32 bytes, and applications no longer crash.
BZ#641128
Previously, the generic implementation of the strstr() and memmem() functions did not handle certain periodic patterns correctly and could find a false positive match. This error has been fixed, and both functions now work as expected.
BZ#656530
The long double square root function, sqrtl, sometimes returned an incorrect result if the relative magnitude difference between the high and low halves of the long double exceeded a certain number. This occurred because one of the variables used in the calculation was an unsigned integer. The integer is now signed and the function works correctly.
BZ#623187
The futex(FUTEX_WAKE_OP) method did not default to futex(FUTEX_WAKE) when FUTEX_WAKE_OP was not supported by the kernel. This resulted in the method always failing on these systems. The code change in glibc pthread_cond_signal() that caused this issue has now been corrected.
BZ#661982
The memmove, wmemmove and wmemset operations contained incorrect "__restrict" qualifiers, even though their arguments could overlap. This issue has now been corrected.
BZ#656014
The name service cache daemon (nscd) cached the results of lookups for DNS records even when the DNS records had a time-to-live of 0. nscd now respects DNS time-to-live values, and does not cache the results in this situation.
BZ#653905
Attempting to build the glibc RPM failed when %_enable_debug_packages was either not set, or set to 0. This has been corrected so that debug packages need not be set or enabled in order to build the glibc RPM.
BZ#652661
An uninitialized variable prevented glibc from compiling with the G++ compiler when "sys/timex.h" was included. This has been corrected.
BZ#647448
strchr did not handle its second parameter correctly when %rdi was aligned to a 16-byte boundary and glibc was enabled for multiple architectures on AMD64 or Intel 64 systems with CPUs that supported Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extension (SSE) 4.2. The method would therefore output incorrect results. This has been corrected, and strchr now gives the expected output.
BZ#615701
glibc did not load nosegneg libraries in a 32-bit Xen domain U environment when hwcap 1 nosegneg was set in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/nosegneg.conf, causing the incorrect library to be used. This has been corrected so that the nosegneg libraries are loaded.
BZ#692177
Previously, the sysconf(_SC_*CACHE) method returned 0 for all caches on systems with Intel Xeon processors. This occurred because glibc used cpuid leaf 2 rather than cpuid leaf 4. This update uses cpuid leaf 4 where possible, resolving this issue.
BZ#689471
The strncmp method failed with a segmentation fault when used with Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extension 4 (SSE4). Several checks have been implemented to prevent this.
Enhancements
BZ#601686
Several aspects of glibc code have been optimized for Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extension (SSE), including memcpy(), strcasecmp(), strnlen(), strcasestr() and strncasestr().
BZ#615090
Details about the MALLOC_PERTURB_ (M_PERTURB) operation, which can be used to debug the use of uninitialized or freed heap memory, have been added to the documentation.
BZ#676076
Support for forthcoming AMD processors has been added to glibc's memset operation.
All users of glibc are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.
Updated glibc packages that resolve several issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The glibc packages contain the standard C and the standard math libraries. These libraries are used by multiple programs on the system, and without these libraries, the Linux system cannot function properly.
Bug Fixes
BZ#712125
Under certain circumstances, a threaded process could have been granted incomplete group membership of the user which was running the process. This was caused by glibc using its default method for group membership determination, which led to a situation in which multiple threads interfered with each other while attempting to retrieve information simultaneously. Due to the nature of the group membership determination method used, each thread ended up with a different subset of the entire result set. With this update, the group membership determination method has been modified to precede this interference.
BZ#712407
When a process corrupted its heap, the malloc() function could have entered a deadlock situation while building up an error message string. This caused the process unresponsive. With this update, the code has been modified to use the mmap() function to allocate memory for the error message. This workaround ensures that the malloc() deadlock no longer occurs when allocating memory for an error message when the corrupted process heap is detected, and such a process is now normally aborted.
BZ#712411
Prior to this update, the Name Service Caching Daemon (nscd) did not clear the host cache effectively when repopulating its values. The code has been modified to schedule nscd cache pruning more accurately.
BZ#715387
Previously, nscd did not take into consideration time-to-live (TTL) parameters for the DNS records it was caching. With this update, the code has been modified so that nscd now respects TTL parameters when it answers requests for DNS records.
All users of glibc are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

1.76. gnome-panel

Updated gnome-panel and libwnck packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The GNOME panel provides the window list, workspace switcher, menus, and other features for the GNOME desktop. libwnck allows applications to monitor information about open windows, workspaces, their names/icons, and so forth.
Bug Fixes
BZ#607665
Previously, when a user connected two monitors to a computer and set the GNOME Panel to show hide buttons, the panel did not hide but moved to the adjacent monitor instead. This bug has been fixed, moving the panel to the adjacent monitor no longer takes place.
BZ#633853
Previously, there was the untranslated text label "Top Panel" in the GNOME Panel's "Add to Panel" dialog. The problem applied to all non-English locales. The problem has been resolved so that the untranslated text label does not appear anymore in the "Add to Panel" dialog.
BZ#633870
Previously, there was a conflicting accelerator key in the GNOME Panel's Date/Time context menu under the kn_IN locale. The fix for this bug has been provided so that there is no more a conflicting accelerator key in the Date/Time context menu.

Enhancements

BZ#509061, BZ#673231
When windows were grouped by the GNOME Panel in the taskbar, they were grouped in an alphabetical order. Such behavior presented a problem when window title changed. This release introduces an option to disable grouping window alphabetically. The fix to enable the option has been applied both in the gnome-panel and the libwnck package.
BZ#585312
Previously, when an external monitor was connected to a computer, a user was able to move a panel between monitors by pressing the Alt key and dragging a blank area of the panel. This update introduces an enhancement in that the user can now change the settings with regard to moving the panel between monitors in the GNOME Panel "Properties" dialog.
All users requiring gnome-panel and libwnck should upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues and add these enhancements.

1.77. gnome-power-manager

Updated gnome-power-manager packages that fix several bugs are now available.
GNOME Power Manager uses the information and facilities provided by HAL to display icons and handle user callbacks in an interactive GNOME session.

Bug Fixes

BZ#581525
Previously, the Help page for GNOME Power Manager was not displayed when users pressed F1 or selected Help from the menu bar. This has been corrected and the Help page now appears as expected.
BZ#623674
The "do nothing" option, which allowed users to work on external monitors even when their laptop lid was closed, was removed. This prevented users from using external monitors while their laptop was closed. The "do nothing" option has been reinstated to allow this.
BZ#624422
A bug in the docbook2man tool caused the GNOME Power Manager man page (man gnome-power-manager) to appear incorrectly. The man page has been manually corrected while this bug is in effect.
BZ#640296
When an attempt to hibernate failed, an alert was displayed prompting users to check a help file. However, there was no link to the help file, which caused confusion. The alert no longer refers to the help file.
All users of GNOME Power Manager are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

1.78. gnome-terminal

Updated gnome-terminal packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Gnome-terminal is a terminal emulator for GNOME. It supports translucent backgrounds, opening multiple terminals in a single window (tabs) and clickable URLs.
Bug Fix
BZ#669113
Changes made to check boxes in the search dialog were not reflected in the terminal engine (vte). This led to confusion and wrong functionality. Problem has been fixed and users should get expected behaviour.
All gnome-terminal users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

1.79. gpxe

Updated gpxe packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The gpxe packages provide an open source Preboot Execution Environment (PXE) implementation and bootloader. gPXE also supports additional protocols such as DNS, HTTP, iSCSI and ATA over Ethernet.
Bug Fixes
BZ#661840
Devices that did not allow interrupts or required polling were not supported by gPXE UNDI code. This meant that booting did not work when using gPXE images on bare metal with some NICs, such as Emulex 10g. This patch allows the gPXE UNDI code to use polling for underlying devices that do not support interrupts. As a result it is now possible to use gPXE images to boot bare metal hosts using UNDI where it was not possible in some cases.
BZ#672529
Virtual Machines (VM) with virtIO NIC could not access the PXE server, reaching a time out. This was because even though the VM could get an IP address from the DHCP server, it could not reach its own default gateway. The ARP requests that the VM sends were too large and thus not valid, so the default gateway did not answer those ARP requests. A patch has been added that sets the size of the transmitted Ethernet frame to header + data length, allowing the VM to boot via PXE.
All gPXE users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

1.80. grub

An updated grub package that adds two enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The GRUB utility is responsible for booting the operating system kernel.
Enhancements
BZ#553741
Prior to this update, GRUB only supported the MD5 password encryption. This update introduces support for the SHA-2 cryptographic algorithms, allowing users to encrypt passwords using SHA-256 and SHA-512 hash functions as well.
BZ#654869
GRUB has been updated to allow booting from disk drives with 4KB sector size on UEFI systems.
All users of grub are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which adds these enhancements.
An updated grub package that fixes one bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The GRUB utility is responsible for booting the operating system kernel.

Bug Fix

BZ#742976
An attempt to install GRUB on a CCISS device may have caused the grub-install utility to report the following error:
        expr: non-numeric argument
When this happened, grub-install failed to install GRUB on this device, but incorrectly reported success and returned a zero exit status. This update applies a patch that ensures that GRUB can now be successfully installed on such devices.
All users of grub are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes this bug.

1.81. gtk2

Updated gtk2 packages that fix two file chooser bugs and two translation problems are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
GTK+ is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces.
Bug Fixes
BZ#647922
In the "Open Files" dialog box, the file selected by default failed to be opened upon hitting Enter if the "Location" field was displayed. Users had to select the file manually to actually open it. This update provides a fix to address this issue and the file selected by default now opens correctly.
BZ#647923
The "Open Files" dialog box failed to show contents of the directory selected by default upon hitting Enter if the "Location" field was displayed. Users had to select the directory manually to actually show its contents. This update provides a fix for this issue and the directory selected by default now shows its contents correctly.
BZ#625440
There was a typo in the Marathi (mr_IN) and Telugu (te_IN) translations. Erroneous "calender:MY" string was part of those translations. This update provides corrected translations.
BZ#636476
There was an inconsistency in the Guarati (gu_IN) translation. In ibus's Language Selection Tab, titles for "Up" and "Down" buttons and help labels at the bottom of the dialog box did not match. This update provides an updated translation.
Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

1.82. gvfs

Updated gvfs packages that fix multiple bugs and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
GVFS is the GNOME desktop's virtual file system layer, which allows users to easily access local and remote data, including via the FTP, SFTP, WebDAV, CIFS and SMB protocols, among others. GVFS integrates with the GIO (GNOME I/O) abstraction layer.
Bug Fixes
BZ#616145
A flaw in the GVFS client code prevented D-Bus communications from being parsed correctly. Due to this problem, Nautilus became unresponsive when the user attempted to view Trash if a folder with an attached emblem was moved to Trash. This update corrects an error in the enumeration code which resolves this problem. Now, Nautilus no longer becomes unresponsive in such cases.
BZ#616838
Previously, an unused file descriptor was not closed after a fork. Due to this behavior, SELinux prevented /usr/bin/ssh access to the leaked /dev/ptmx file descriptor. This update closes the leaked file descriptor. Now, SELinux alerts no longer appear.
BZ#636540
Previously, the gnome-disk-utility packages did not reflect current version requirements. Due to this lack, potential problems could arise with custom compiled packages. This update requires the correct version of gnome-disk-utility packages.
BZ#645630
Previously, the gvfsd-archive command was unexpectedly aborted when the user attempted to mount an archive file a second time. This update changes the way the gvfsd-archive backend is finalized. Now, gvfsd-archive no longer aborts when the same archive files are mounted for the second time.
BZ#667367
Running the "gvfs-mkdir --help" command caused "--delete-files" to appear instead of "--create-directories". This update fixes the gvfs-mkdir command's help output so that the correct options are displayed.
Enhancement
BZ#624795
Previously, snapshots from the Network File System (NFS) mounted home directories located on Network Appliance (NetApp) filers were treated as real mounts and were displayed on the desktop. This behavior could cause confusion. This update checks and hides mounts with a path element starting with a dot. With this update, these mounts are hidden. Now, snapshot directories are no longer shown in the GUI. To apply this enhancement, the updated glib2 packages must be installed as well.
Users of GVFS are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add this enhancement.

1.83. hal

An updated hal package that fixes two bugs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
HAL is daemon for collecting and maintaining information from several sources about the hardware on a system.

Bug Fixes

BZ#576048
Previously, the init script for hald did not parse a config file in /etc/sysconfig. This meant that the only way to pass extra parameters to the hald was to start them manually without the init script, or to modify the line that launches hald in the init script itself. This update changes the startup script to parse a config file in /etc/sysconfig for extra configuration parameters.
BZ#676618
When checking hal-device on a device that did not exist, an error in dbus/hal communication was displayed. In this update, hal no longer tries to close shared DBus connections, and therefore avoids printing a warning.
Users are advised to upgrade to this updated hal package, which resolves these issues.

1.84. hivex

Updated hivex packages that fix a bug and add an enhancement are now available for Red Hat Linux 6.
Hive files are undocumented binary blobs that Windows uses to store the Windows Registry on the disk. Hivex is a library that can read and write to these files.
Bug Fix
BZ#657017
Due to a problem with the Perl hivex bindings in the spec file, rebuilding of source packages could have failed if compiled from the source RPM. With this update, the issue no longer occurs.
Enhancement
BZ#642631
The hivex package was updated to the upstream version 1.2.3. This enhancement provides several stability improvements.
All hivex users are advised to upgrade to these updated hivex packages, which resolve this issue and add this enhancement.

1.85. hplip

Updated hplip packages that fix multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The hplip packages contain the Hewlett-Packard Linux Imaging and Printing Project (HPLIP) which provides drivers for Hewlett-Packard printers and multi-function peripherals.
Bug Fixes
BZ#608003
Previously, certain Python scripts used the interpreter line "#!/usr/bin/env python". Due to this issue, these scripts used an incorrect version during the execution. With this update, the interpreter line is changed and uses the path /usr/bin/python.
BZ#613707
Previously, the license text was missing. This update adds the license text to the hplip-common sub-package.
BZ#616569
Previously, the hp-toolbox utility failed to add new printers due to incorrect handling of CUPS authentication in the cupsext Python extension. This update corrects the handling. Now, new printers can be added successfully.
BZ#633899
Previously, the CUPS Web Interface button, displayed in hp-toolbox when no connected devices were shown, led to an incorrect URL. This update corrects this URL so that there is no error message shown.
BZ#652255
This update upgrades HPLIP to the current version to allow support for a wider range of HP printers.
All HPLIP users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

1.86. httpd

Updated httpd packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, and 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
The Apache HTTP Server is a popular web server.

Security Fix

CVE-2011-3192
A flaw was found in the way the Apache HTTP Server handled Range HTTP headers. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause httpd to use an excessive amount of memory and CPU time via HTTP requests with a specially-crafted Range header.
All httpd users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. After installing the updated packages, the httpd daemon must be restarted for the update to take effect.
Updated httpd packages that fix two security issues and one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
The Apache HTTP Server is a popular web server.

Security Fixes

CVE-2011-3368
It was discovered that the Apache HTTP Server did not properly validate the request URI for proxied requests. In certain configurations, if a reverse proxy used the ProxyPassMatch directive, or if it used the RewriteRule directive with the proxy flag, a remote attacker could make the proxy connect to an arbitrary server, possibly disclosing sensitive information from internal web servers not directly accessible to the attacker.
CVE-2011-3348
It was discovered that mod_proxy_ajp incorrectly returned an "Internal Server Error" response when processing certain malformed HTTP requests, which caused the back-end server to be marked as failed in configurations where mod_proxy was used in load balancer mode. A remote attacker could cause mod_proxy to not send requests to back-end AJP (Apache JServ Protocol) servers for the retry timeout period or until all back-end servers were marked as failed.
Red Hat would like to thank Context Information Security for reporting the CVE-2011-3368 issue.
Bug Fix
BZ#736592
The fix for CVE-2011-3192 provided by the RHSA-2011:1245 update introduced regressions in the way httpd handled certain Range HTTP header values. This update corrects those regressions.
All httpd users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. After installing the updated packages, the httpd daemon must be restarted for the update to take effect.
Updated httpd packages that fix multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Apache HTTP Server is a popular web server.
Bug Fixes
BZ#631849
Due to a bug in the filter initialization process, filters configured using the mod_filter module were not handled correctly if a "sub-request" took place. For example, using the "FilterChain" directive to configure the "DEFLATE" compression filter with a Server-Side-Include page could result in pages which were only partially compressed. With this update, filters used with mod_filter operate correctly.
BZ#657480
If arguments passed to the ab benchmarking program triggered a memory allocation failure, ab could terminate unexpectedly with a segmentation fault. With this update, the memory allocation failure is now trapped earlier, and the program exits gracefully with an error message. (BZ#645846) * When executing the "service httpd stop" command, a 10-seconds timeout is used before terminating the httpd parent process in case of error. If this timeout was insufficient, resources did not allow the parent process to terminate cleanly and could be leaked. This update introduces the "STOP_TIMEOUT" environment variable, which can be used in the /etc/sysconfig/httpd configuration file to change the timeout. This can be used to allow a longer delay and fix resource leaks if the httpd parent is slow to terminate.
BZ#676635
When configuring the httpd service, using a mod_ldap directive in the "VirtualHost" container caused the HTTP server to stop caching requests to a directory server. This update applies a patch that corrects this error, and the use of mod_ldap directives in the "VirtualHost" context no longer prevents the httpd service from caching LDAP requests.
BZ#676831
Prior to this update, an attempt to use configuration with multiple virtual hosts sharing the same ID and private key file could prevent the httpd service from starting with an error message written to the error_log file. With this update, the underlying source code has been modified to address this issue, and the httpd service now starts as expected.
BZ#679476
When using the prefork Multi-Processing Module (MPM), children processes with persistent connections (that is, with the "KeepAlive" directive set to "On") kept processing new requests even when a graceful restart had been issued. This update applies a patch that corrects this error, and children processes with the persistent connections no longer process new requests when a graceful restart is requested.
BZ#684144
Previously, an attempt to start the httpd service with the mod_ssl module in FIPS mode failed. With this update, an upstream patch has been applied to implement support for the FIPS mode in the mod_ssl module, and httpd no longer fails to start.
All users of httpd are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

1.87. hwdata

An updated hwdata package that adds various enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1.
The hwdata package contains tools for accessing and displaying hardware identification and configuration data.
Enhancements
BZ#662673
The pci.ids database has been updated to include the information about the MegaRAID SAS Thunderbolt device.
BZ#633837
The pci.ids database has been updated to include the information about the Matrox IMMv2 management controller and integrated MatroxG200eR video controller.
Users of hwdata are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which adds these enhancements.

1.88. ibus

Updated ibus packages that fix various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The IBus (Intelligent Input Bus for Linux OS) package is an input method platform.
Bug Fixes
BZ#651915
ibus-x11 displayed at the incorrect window position and did not follow xterm for X11 applications in big endian 64-bit machines such as ppc64 and s390x. This was caused by the call_data->ic_attr[i].value being able to support only CARD32 data (32-bit) while the problematic machines were 64-bit machines. The code was changed to support 64-bit machines, thus ibus now works as expected.
BZ#633330
ibus displayed incorrect text for the "up" and "down" buttons for the Kannada translation. The translated text was corrected, thus now the buttons display the correct translated text.
BZ#635541
ibus displayed inconsistent translations on "up" and "down" buttons compared to text at the bottom of the window referring to "up" and "down" buttons for the Gujarati translation. Translation was amended for consistency and the button text and descriptive text at the bottom of the window are now the same.
Users of ppc64, s390x machines, Gujarati, and Kannada, are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues.

1.89. ibus-chewing

An updated ibus-chewing package that fixes a bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
IBus-chewing is an IBus front-end of Chewing, an intelligent Chinese input method for Zhuyin (BoPoMoFo) users.
Bug Fix
BZ#627794
Previously, the IBus-chewing did not specify the rank parameter for the zh-TW locale in the input engine description file. This caused the IBus tool not to provide any default input method engine for the locale. This update adds the input method engines to the chewing.xml file and ibus-chewing is selected as the default input method for zh_TW users.
All users of ibus-chewing are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves this issue.

1.90. ibus-hangul

An updated ibus-hangul package that fixes one bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The ibus-hangul package is a Korean language input engine platform for the IBus input method (IM).
Bug Fix
BZ#610075
Previously, preedit was not restored when the candidate window was restored while focusing in. Due to this behavior, the candidate window remained open after focus changes. This update resolves this issue with a change in the code. Now, the candidate window is hidden as expected.
Users who require Korean language input are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes this bug.

1.91. ibus-m17n

An updated ibus-m17n package that resolves several bugs is now available.
The ibus-m17n is a multilingual input engine for the IBus input method platform.
Bug Fixes
BZ#641243
When a new user and language were selected during login, ibus-m17n did not load all input methods provided for that language; only one input method was loaded and marked for use as the default input method. The user had to manually search for and add any other input methods that they wanted to use. All input methods for a given language are now loaded upon login, and can be accessed from the ibus-m17n Preferences tab.
BZ#652201
ibus-m17n did not recognize the AltGr (ISO Level 3 Shift) key as a virtual modifier key, making it impossible to input the Rupee Symbol (U+20B9) with an Indic Keyboard. The AltGr key is now recognized by ibus-m17n.
All users of ibus-m17n are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves these issues.

1.92. ibutils

Updated ibutils packages that resolve an issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The ibutils package provides InfiniBand network and path diagnostics.
Bug Fix
BZ#695204
Previous releases of the ibutils package were not built for the PowerPC 64-bit architecture. This has been fixed and the ibutils package is now built for the PowerPC 64-bit architecture as well.
All users of ibutils are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve this issue.

1.93. icedtea-web

Updated icedtea-web packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
The IcedTea-Web project provides a Java web browser plug-in and an implementation of Java Web Start, which is based on the Netx project. It also contains a configuration tool for managing deployment settings for the plug-in and Web Start implementations.

Security Fixes

CVE-2011-2514
A flaw was discovered in the JNLP (Java Network Launching Protocol) implementation in IcedTea-Web. An unsigned Java Web Start application could use this flaw to manipulate the content of a Security Warning dialog box, to trick a user into granting the application unintended access permissions to local files.
CVE-2011-2513
An information disclosure flaw was discovered in the JNLP implementation in IcedTea-Web. An unsigned Java Web Start application or Java applet could use this flaw to determine the path to the cache directory used to store downloaded Java class and archive files, and therefore determine the user's login name.
All icedtea-web users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues.
Updated icedtea-web packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
The IcedTea-Web project provides a Java web browser plug-in and an implementation of Java Web Start, which is based on the Netx project. It also contains a configuration tool for managing deployment settings for the plug-in and Web Start implementations.

Security Fix

CVE-2011-3377
A flaw was found in the same-origin policy implementation in the IcedTea-Web browser plug-in. A malicious Java applet could use this flaw to open network connections to hosts other than the originating host, violating the same-origin policy.
All IcedTea-Web users should upgrade to these updated packages, which upgrade IcedTea-Web to version 1.0.6 to correct this issue. Web browsers using the IcedTea-Web browser plug-in must be restarted for this update to take effect.

1.94. im-chooser

An updated im-chooser package that fixes a bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
im-chooser is a GUI configuration tool to choose the Input Method to be used or disable Input Method usage on the desktop.
Bug Fix
BZ#634146
The im-chooser window was not re-sizable. This caused the title bar text to run into the right-hand close box in some locales. With this update, the im-chooser window is now re-sizable, ensuring the title bar text displays properly no matter the current locale.
All im-chooser users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves this issue.

1.95. imsettings

Updated imsettings packages that fix a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The imsettings packages provide a library and command line tools to configure and control input-methods settings. Users normally access it through the "im-chooser" GUI tool.
Bug Fix
BZ#616061
It was not possible to turn off the GTK XIM input-method module from imsettings. As a consequence, users were unable to enter Unicode characters using the Ctrl+Shift+U shortcut. With this update, the default GTK input-method is restored to gtk-im-context-simple, which allows Unicode input with the shortcut. Now only desktop locales that normally need X locale compose default to using the GTK XIM input-method module.
Users of imsettings should upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

1.96. initscripts

An enhanced initscripts package that fixes various bugs and provides an enhancement is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The initscripts package contains system scripts to boot your system, change runlevels, activate and deactivate most network interfaces, and shut the system down cleanly.
Bug Fixes
BZ#558575
Previously, initscripts used quoted strings as values following the =~ operators and the strings were thus matched as literal strings. However, they should be matched as regular expressions. With this update, the quotes were dropped and the strings are matched as regular expressions as expected.
BZ#598850
Previously, some systems failed to access the harware clock on system shutdown. This happened because the shutdown script ran the hwclock tool, which attempted to access the /dev/rtc device even if it did not exist. With this update, initscripts verifies if the /dev/rtc device exists before attempting to run the hwclock tool.
BZ#612934
The ifdown command could have failed to stop an NIC (Network Interface Controller) with a warning that the connection was unknown. This happened because, in some cases, the function, which verifies whether the NIC is managed by NetworkManager, returned an incorrect result. With this update, the function returns the correct result and the ifdown command stops the NIC correctly.
BZ#620461
Previously, if there was a bind mount for the / directory, the system could have failed to remount the root directory as a read-only file system on shutdown. This occurred because the script attempted to remount the defined bind mount instead of the root directory. With this update, the root directory is remounted successfully.
BZ#629257
Previously, a conflict between the sulogin tool and the login shell could have prevented the user from entering the root password in single-user mode. This occurred when switching from runlevel 3 because the login shell was not terminated and attempted to accept the input for the sulogin tool. With this update, the tty.conf and serial.conf files have been modified to have the login shell stopped when changing to runlevels S and the problem no longer occurs.
BZ#632584
On interactive startup, in some locals, the shortcut of the Continue key in the respective language did not work. This occurred due to an error in the local po files. With this update, the po files have been updated and the shortcuts work as expected.
BZ#633984
Previously, the network service did not support configurations with multiple IP addresses with the new syntax (IPADDRESSn/PREFIXn). This caused conflicts between network configurations set with the network service and network configurations set with the NetworkManager tool. With this update, the network service supports the configurations with multiple IP addresses with the new syntax and the conflicts no longer occur.
BZ#634996
Previously, the tty.conf file contained a comment with a typographical mistake ("sepcified"). With this update, the word is spelled correctly ("specified").
BZ#635360
Previously, the system was not able to create a logical network with the VLAN (virtual local area network) tag value 0. With this update, this tag value is allowed.
BZ#637058
Previously, the /etc/sysconfig/clock file did not document where the user can configure whether the hwclock tool should be using the local time or UTC (Coordinated Universal Time). This update adds comments documenting the setting location into the sysconfig.txt file.
BZ#645861
Previously, the /etc/ppp/ipv6-up and /etc/ppp/ip-up.ipv6to4 scripts used the incorrect alias ipv6_exec_ip and failed to bring up the routes. This update modifies the scripts so that they uses the ip command and the routes are now brought up as expected.
BZ#648966
For IPoIB (IP over InfiniBand) child interfaces, the value of the DEVICETYPE variable was calculated incorrectly. This happened because the calculation preserved the period (.) sign in the device name. This could have caused failure of the ifup-ib and ifdown-ib scripts. With this update, DEVICETYPE is resolved correctly.
BZ#654101
On shutdown, the system tried to deactivate the sit IPv6 over IPv4 tunnel device even though it was not active. With this update, the system verifies if the device is active before attempting to shut it down.
BZ#658138
Previously, the kexec-disable script was run when switching to runlevel 1. Because the kdump service is disabled in runlevel 1, the script freed the memory reserved for kdump. After the user changed from runlevel 1 to runlevel 3, which has kdump enabled, the system had set reserved memory size to 0 and kdump failed to start up. With this update, the kexec-disable job is no longer run in runlevel 1.
BZ#660036
Previously, all architectures used identical shmmax (maximum size of a shared memory segment) and shmall (maximum size of the total shared memory) values. However, the values vary depending on the system architecture. This update provides the settings of these values for various architectures.
BZ#664051
Previously, various errors occurred when some devices were inserted (for example, PCI network card). This happened because the biodevname tool assigned them interface names containing hash (#) signs, which were forbidden in such names. With this update, interface names can contain hash (#) signs and the problem no longer occurs.
BZ#667211
Previously, initscripts did not distinguish between the period (.) signs used by the sysctl device, which were delimiting the paths, and the period (.) signs used by VLANs, which were delimiting IDs. This caused that all sysctl calls to the VLAN interfaces failed. With this update, when calling a sysctl device, initscripts substitutes the periods in its name with forward slash (/) signs and the sysctl calls to a VLAN interface succeed.
BZ#669110
Previously, a slave network interface of a bonded interface failed to start if it defined the setting MASTER in double quotes (for example, as "bond0"). With this update, the respective scripts have been adapted to parse the value definition correctly even if double-quoted.
BZ#670154
The ifdown command could have failed to stop a bridge device with a warning that the connection was unknown. This happened because the function, which verified whether the device is managed by NetworkManager, returned an incorrect result. With this update, the function returns a correct result and the ifdown command stops the bridge device correctly.
BZ#674397
Section 8 of the sys-unconfig manual page contained various typographical mistakes. With this update, the man page is updated and the mistakes are corrected.
BZ#676708
Previously, a name of a VLAN interface had to start with the eth prefix followed by digits. If the user provided a name, which did not follow these requirements, the interface could not be started or stopped. With this update, the user can provide a custom name and the interface can be operated correctly.
BZ#696110
Previously, the netfs startup script attempted to run the mdadm tool always when the /etc/mdadm.conf file existed and could have failed if mdadm was not installed. With this update, the script first verifies if the mdadm tool is installed and only then runs its binary.
BZ#682879
The system could have failed to unmount the NFS (Network File System) shares on shutdown. This occurred because the system failed to unmount the NFS shares if they were in use. With this update, the unmouting of NFS shares on shutdown has been updated and the NFS shares are unmounted successfully even if in use.
Enhancement
BZ#633323
With this update, the IBM System z profile was updated to allow an optimized performance setting for System z.
All users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes these bugs and provides this enhancement.

1.97. iok

An updated iok package that fixes a bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
iok is an Indic on-screen virtual keyboard that supports the Assamese, Bengali, Gujarati, Hindi, Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, Punjabi, Oriya, Sindhi, Tamil and Telugu languages. Currently, iok works with Inscript and xkb keymaps for Indian languages, and is able to parse and display non-Inscript keymaps as well.

Bug Fix

BZ#636756
The file that contains the Oriya translations for iok contained some entries with Latin text appended to the Oriya text. The Latin text caused the key size to increase, thus the keyboard became too large to fit in the display area. The Latin text has now been removed from the Oriya translation, causing the Oriya keyboard and keys size to conform to other languages.
Users are advised to upgrade to this updated iok package, which resolves this issue.

1.98. ipa

Updated ipa packages that fix a bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Red Hat Enterprise Identity (IPA) is a centralized authentication, identity management, and authorization solution for both traditional and cloud-based enterprise environments. It integrates components of the Red Hat Directory Server, MIT Kerberos, Red Hat Certificate System, NTP, and DNS.
Bug Fix
BZ#729805
Prior to this update, GSSAPI credential delegation was disabled in the curl utility due to a security issue. As a result, applications that rely on delegation did not work properly. This update utilizes a new constructor argument in the xmlrpc-c client API to set the new CURLOPT_GSSAPI_DELEGATION curl option. This option enables the credential delegation, thus fixing this bug.
Users of ipa are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.
Updated ipa packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Red Hat Enterprise Identity (IPA) is a centralized authentication, identity management and authorization solution for both traditional and cloud based enterprise environments. It integrates components of the Red Hat Directory Server, MIT Kerberos, Red Hat Certificate System, NTP and DNS. It provides web browser and command-line interfaces. Its administration tools allow an administrator to quickly install, set up, and administer a group of IPA servers to meet the authentication and identity management requirements of the large scale Linux and Unix deployments.
Bug Fixes
BZ#709329
When an IPA server was installed and then a replica package for a replica server was generated, the installation of the replica server failed. With this update, the installation process waits for the 389DS (389 Directory Server) tasks to complete before restarting the server, fixing this bug.
BZ#709330
Previously, the ipa service was not enabled via the chkconfig tool during the installation of a replica server. Subsequently, when the replica server was restarted, the ipa service was not started. With this update, replica servers are properly configured to start on boot.
BZ#709331
After a replica server was installed, the Managed Entries were not properly configured on replica servers. Subsequently, users had to manually add the configuration using the ldapmodify tool after the replica installation, and then restart the services with the "ipactl restart" command. This bug has been fixed and the configuration is now automatically added as expected.
BZ#709332
When a new reverse zone was created via the ipa-replica-prepare script, the wrong DNS entry was updated, which eventually caused an installation of a replica server to fail. This bug has been fixed and when the named service is restarted after a replica package has been created, the correct DNS entries are now set up for an installation of a replica server.
All users of ipa are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

1.99. ipmitool

An enhanced ipmitool package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The ipmitool package contains a command line utility for interfacing with devices that support the Intelligent Platform Management Interface specification (IPMI). IPMI is an open standard for machine health, inventory, and remote power control.
Enhancements
BZ#631649
The update adds the "delloem" command extensions for Dell OEM hardware, which provide support for Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) solutions, LCD setting on panel, NIC setting, and power monitoring. This update also provides manual pages for the "delloem" command extensions.
BZ#663793
This update integrates the Linux Multiple Device (MD) driver with ipmitool to indicate SES (SCSI enclosure services) status and drive activities for PCIe SSD based solutions.
Users of ipmitool are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which adds these enhancements.

1.100. iproute

Updated iproute packages that fix several bugs and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The iproute packages contain networking utilities designed to use the advanced networking capabilities of the Linux kernel.
Bug Fix
BZ#636943
If the "ip" command was used to create a veth device pair, and the "peer" parameter was specified but the "name" parameter was not used, a segmentation fault occurred. The "name" parameter was an unnecessary requirement for this operation. The need for this parameter has been removed and the command now works as expected.
BZ#641918
The ss man page contained a reference to a nonexistent file. This reference has been updated with the correct file location.
BZ#678986
Previously, attempting to flush a secondary device with "ip secondary" would fail. This issue has now been corrected and secondary devices are flushed as expected.
Enhancement
BZ#670295
Support for adding, deleting, and modifying security contexts or security labels in ipsec policies has been added to the "ip xfrm" command.
All users of iproute are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which correct these issues and add this enhancement.

1.101. iprutils

An updated iprutils package that adds an enhancement is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The iprutils package provides utilities to manage and configure SCSI devices that are supported by the "ipr" SCSI storage device driver.
Enhancement
BZ#633328
The iprutils package has been updated to provide support for the 6Gb SAS RAID storage controller on 64-bit IBM POWER7.
All users of iprutils are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which adds this enhancement.
An updated iprutils package that fixes multiple bugs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The iprutils package provides utilities to manage and configure SCSI devices that are supported by the IBM Power RAID SCSI storage device driver.
Bug Fixes
BZ#747621
Due to an incorrectly placed call of the sysfs_close_bus() structure in the iprlib code, some of the iprutils programs could terminate unexpectedly with a segmentation fault during their initialization. This problem has been corrected, and iprutils programs no longer crash.
BZ#747621
The find_multipath_vset routine used the ARRAY_SIZE() macro to calculate the length of the SCSI device serial number. Previously, the length was calculated incorrectly, which could have led to false positives when looking for the corresponding vset. As a consequence, attempting to delete arrays failed: the target and the second array were set to be read/write protected, writing to both arrays was not possible, and the system had to be rebooted. To fix the problem, the IPR_SERIAL_NUM_LEN macro is now used instead of ARRAY_SIZE.
BZ#747621
With the maximum number of devices attached to one of the new Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) 64-bit adapters, the configuration data could have grown over the buffer size. With this update, the buffer size has been increased, which fixes the problem and ensures enough space for any possible future growth.
All users of iprutils are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes these bugs.

1.102. iptables

Updated iptables packages that fix two bugs and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The iptables utility controls the network packet filtering code in the Linux kernel.
Bug Fixes
BZ#590186
Previously, ip6tables did not support Portable Transparent Proxy Solution (TPROXY). Due to this lack, the IPv6 transparent proxy support was missing and IPv6 transparency was not available. This update adds this option.
BZ#644273
Previously, the command "service iptables save" did not restore the context for the save file and the save backup file. It also used /tmp for the temporary file. Due to the wrong context of the save and save backup file, there could be an error the next time the save functionality is used. This update restores the context and also saves the temporary files correctly.
Enhancement
BZ#642393
Previously, iptables did not support auditing. Due to this issue, information for remote address/port, target address/port, protocol, and result (success/fail) could not be recorded as an audit event. This update adds the required audit support. This enhancement depends on the presence of auditing support in the kernel.
All iptables users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add this enhancement.
Updated iptables packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Update Support.
The iptables utility controls the network packet filtering code in the Linux kernel.
Bug Fix
BZ#786871
The option parser of the iptables utility did not correctly handle the "-m mark" and "-m conmark" options in the same rule. Therefore, the iptables command failed when issued with both options. This update modifies behavior of the option parser so that iptables now works as expected with the "-m mark" and "-m conmark" options specified.
All users of iptables are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

1.103. iputils

An updated iputils package that fixes various bugs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The iputils package contains basic utilities for monitoring a network, including ping.
Bug Fixes
BZ#630022
The ping and ping6 commands were previously not compiled as position independent executables (PIE). In this update, they are now built as PIE executables.
BZ#671579
Previously, the tracepath6 program that is included in the iputils package failed to resolve a target when using the "-n" option and a hostname as the target. The fix for this problem has been provided so that tracepath6 now works as expected.
BZ#688332
Previously, when the rdisc utility that is included in the iputils package was run on a system with an interface having two IP addresses assigned to the interface, an error was issued and rdisc failed to start. The bug has been fixed and the rdisc start failure no longer occurs.
All iputils users should upgrade to this updated package, which resolves these issues.

1.104. irqbalance

An updated irqbalance package that fixes one bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
irqbalance is a daemon that evenly distributes IRQ load across multiple CPUs for enhanced performance.
Bug Fix
BZ#630023
irqbalance was not previously built with PIE and RELRO enabled, as they were in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. In this update, irqbalance is built as a PIE executable and is using RELRO protection.
Users of irqbalance are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes this bug.

1.105. iscsi-initiator-utils

Updated iscsi-initiator-utils packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The iscsi package provides the server daemon for the Internet Small Computer System Interface (iSCSI) protocol, as well as the utility programs used to manage it. iSCSI is a protocol for distributed disk access using SCSI commands sent over Internet Protocol networks.
Bug Fixes
BZ#691902
When performing SendTargets discovery, the "iface" NIC binding was ignored. Instead, iscsiadm used the network device determined by the "route" command. SendTargets discovery now occurs through the NIC specified in the "iface" binding information.
BZ#631821
If SendTargets discovery required multiple TEXT commands because of a long target list, iscsiadm did not set the Initiator Task Tag in compliance with RFC-3720 as published by the Internet Engineering Task Force. This issue has been fixed, and iscsiadm now sets the Initiator Task Tag correctly.
BZ#634021
Attempting to reboot or shut down a system with a running iSCSI daemon caused the system to stop responding because iSCSI sessions remained running. All iSCSI sessions now shut down correctly, so no issues are encountered on shut down or reboot.
BZ#689359
Previously, iSCSI did not work on the Broadcom NetXtreme II 1GbE Quad Port Copper Adapter (BCM57712) when connected to a Data Center Bridging-enabled (DCB-enabled) switch over VLAN. This occurred because VLAN tagging was set twice, once by uIP and once by the DCB firmware. This update corrects this issue with VLAN tagging.
BZ#640115
The ISCSI_ERR_INVALID_HOST error event was not being handled correctly, leaving iSCSI sessions in memory when the iSCSI driver was attempting to shut down. This resulted in the driver failing to respond during shutdown of sessions that used the Broadcom NetXtreme II Network Adapter driver.
BZ#593269
The iscsiadm and iscsid commands depended on files in /usr, but did not require that /usr was mounted when they were used. This resulted in failures without useful error messages when the user attempted to use these commands when /usr was not mounted. This issue has been corrected, and these failures no longer occur.
BZ#658428
Starting or stopping the iSCSI service while accessing the root partition directly through an iSCSI disk could cause iSCSI to become unresponsive and incorrect status information to be reported. Attempting to stop the iSCSI service in this circumstance now warns that iSCSI cannot be shut down while Root is on an iSCSI disk, and all statuses are reported correctly.
BZ#599539
The brcm_iscsiuio usage message displayed in response to the brcm_iscsiuio --help command contained two unsupported options: --foreground and --pid. The man page omitted five supported options: --debug, --help, -h, -p and --version. The unsupported options have been removed from the usage message, and all supported options have been added to the brcm_iscsiuio man page.
BZ#599542
The iscsiadm usage message displayed in response to the iscsiadm --help command omitted 24 supported options. Additionally, the iscsiadm man page omitted one supported option (--host) and contained one unsupported option (--info). These errors have now been corrected.
BZ#624437
iscsiadm did not accept host names or aliases as valid values for the --portal argument when in "node" mode. This resulted in failure, because iscsiadm expected the value returned during discovery as the value for --portal. iscsiadm now attempts to match a host name to the IP address returned during discovery, so this issue no longer occurs.
BZ#688783
If debug message logging was disabled, the iSCSI daemon failed to set the socket priority according to the Data Center Bridging application priority setting, which resulted in packets being sent with the default priority incorrectly. Socket priority is now set based on the Data Center Bridging application priority setting in this situation.
Enhancements
BZ#640340
When iscsiadm failed or exited incorrectly, it did not output useful error codes. Meaningful error codes now exist for these situations, and are described further in the iscsiadm man page.
BZ#523492
Support for Data Center Bridging has been added to the iSCSI driver.
BZ#635899
brcm_iscsiuio provides the ARP and DHCP functionality to offload iSCSI functionality. Support has been added for IPv6, VLAN, and several new Broadcom network cards.
All users of iscsi-initiator-utils are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which provide these bug fixes and add these enhancements.

1.106. iwl5000-firmware

An updated iwl5000-firmware package that fixes a bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The iwl5000-firmware package provides the iwlagn wireless driver with the firmware it requires to function correctly with Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5000 series adapters.
This update upgrades the iwl5000 firmware to upstream version 8.83.5.1, which provides a number of bug fixes over the previous version. (BZ#709522)
Users of iwl5000-firmware are advised to upgrade to this updated package which fixes this bug.

1.107. iwl6000-firmware

An updated iwl6000-firmware package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The iwl6000-firmware package provides the iwlagn wireless driver with the firmware it requires to function correctly with Intel Wireless WiFi Link 6000 series adapters.
This update upgrades the iwl6000 firmware to upstream version 9.221.4.1, which provides a number of bug fixes over the previous version. (BZ#568034)
Users of wireless devices which use iwl6000 firmware are advised to upgrade to this updated package.

1.108. iwl6050-firmware

An updated iwl6050-firmware package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The iwl6050-firmware package provides the iwlagn wireless driver with the firmware it requires to function correctly with Intel Wireless WiFi Link 6050 series adapters.
This update upgrades the iwl6050 firmware to upstream version 41.28.5.1, which provides a number of bug fixes over the previous version. (BZ#663748)
Users of wireless devices which use iwl6050 firmware are advised to upgrade to this updated package.

1.109. java-1.5.0-ibm

Updated java-1.5.0-ibm packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extras, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
The IBM 1.5.0 Java release includes the IBM Java 2 Runtime Environment and the IBM Java 2 Software Development Kit.

Security Fixes

CVE-2011-3545, CVE-2011-3547, CVE-2011-3548, CVE-2011-3549, CVE-2011-3552, CVE-2011-3554, CVE-2011-3556
This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the IBM Java 2 Runtime Environment and the IBM Java 2 Software Development Kit. Detailed vulnerability descriptions are linked from the IBM "Security alerts" page.
All users of java-1.5.0-ibm are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, containing the IBM 1.5.0 SR13 Java release. All running instances of IBM Java must be restarted for this update to take effect.
Updated java-1.5.0-ibm packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extras, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
The IBM 1.5.0 Java release includes the IBM Java 2 Runtime Environment and the IBM Java 2 Software Development Kit.

Security Fixes

CVE-2011-0802, CVE-2011-0814, CVE-2011-0862, CVE-2011-0865, CVE-2011-0867, CVE-2011-0871, CVE-2011-0873
This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the IBM Java 2 Runtime Environment and the IBM Java 2 Software Development Kit. Detailed vulnerability descriptions are linked from the IBM "Security alerts" page.
All users of java-1.5.0-ibm are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, containing the IBM 1.5.0 SR12-FP5 Java release. All running instances of IBM Java must be restarted for this update to take effect.

1.110. java-1.6.0-ibm

Updated java-1.6.0-ibm packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extras, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
The IBM 1.6.0 Java release includes the IBM Java 2 Runtime Environment and the IBM Java 2 Software Development Kit.

Security Fixes

CVE-2011-0802, CVE-2011-0814, CVE-2011-0862, CVE-2011-0863, CVE-2011-0865, CVE-2011-0867, CVE-2011-0868, CVE-2011-0869, CVE-2011-0871, CVE-2011-0873
This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the IBM Java 2 Runtime Environment and the IBM Java 2 Software Development Kit. Detailed vulnerability descriptions are linked from the IBM "Security alerts" page.
All users of java-1.6.0-ibm are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, containing the IBM 1.6.0 SR9-FP2 Java release. All running instances of IBM Java must be restarted for the update to take effect.

1.111. java-1.6.0-openjdk

Updated java-1.6.0-openjdk packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
These packages provide the OpenJDK 6 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 6 Software Development Kit.

Security Fixes

CVE-2011-0862
Integer overflow flaws were found in the way Java2D parsed JPEG images and user-supplied fonts. An attacker could use these flaws to execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running an untrusted applet or application.
CVE-2011-0871
It was found that the MediaTracker implementation created Component instances with unnecessary access privileges. A remote attacker could use this flaw to elevate their privileges by utilizing an untrusted applet or application that uses Swing.
CVE-2011-0864
A flaw was found in the HotSpot component in OpenJDK. Certain bytecode instructions confused the memory management within the Java Virtual Machine (JVM), resulting in an applet or application crashing.
CVE-2011-0867
An information leak flaw was found in the NetworkInterface class. An untrusted applet or application could use this flaw to access information about available network interfaces that should only be available to privileged code.
CVE-2011-0868
An incorrect float-to-long conversion, leading to an overflow, was found in the way certain objects (such as images and text) were transformed in Java2D. A remote attacker could use this flaw to crash an untrusted applet or application that uses Java2D.
CVE-2011-0869
It was found that untrusted applets and applications could misuse a SOAP connection to incorrectly set global HTTP proxy settings instead of setting them in a local scope. This flaw could be used to intercept HTTP requests.
CVE-2011-0865
A flaw was found in the way signed objects were deserialized. If trusted and untrusted code were running in the same Java Virtual Machine (JVM), and both were deserializing the same signed object, the untrusted code could modify said object by using this flaw to bypass the validation checks on signed objects.
All users of java-1.6.0-openjdk are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues. All running instances of OpenJDK Java must be restarted for the update to take effect.
Updated java-1.6.0-openjdk packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
These packages provide the OpenJDK 6 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 6 Software Development Kit.

Security Fixes

CVE-2011-3556
A flaw was found in the Java RMI (Remote Method Invocation) registry implementation. A remote RMI client could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the RMI server running the registry.
CVE-2011-3557
A flaw was found in the Java RMI registry implementation. A remote RMI client could use this flaw to execute code on the RMI server with unrestricted privileges.
CVE-2011-3521
A flaw was found in the IIOP (Internet Inter-Orb Protocol) deserialization code. An untrusted Java application or applet running in a sandbox could use this flaw to bypass sandbox restrictions by deserializing specially-crafted input.
CVE-2011-3544
It was found that the Java ScriptingEngine did not properly restrict the privileges of sandboxed applications. An untrusted Java application or applet running in a sandbox could use this flaw to bypass sandbox restrictions.
CVE-2011-3548
A flaw was found in the AWTKeyStroke implementation. An untrusted Java application or applet running in a sandbox could use this flaw to bypass sandbox restrictions.
CVE-2011-3551
An integer overflow flaw, leading to a heap-based buffer overflow, was found in the Java2D code used to perform transformations of graphic shapes and images. An untrusted Java application or applet running in a sandbox could use this flaw to bypass sandbox restrictions.
CVE-2011-3554
An insufficient error checking flaw was found in the unpacker for JAR files in pack200 format. A specially-crafted JAR file could use this flaw to crash the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) or, possibly, execute arbitrary code with JVM privileges.
CVE-2011-3560
It was found that HttpsURLConnection did not perform SecurityManager checks in the setSSLSocketFactory method. An untrusted Java application or applet running in a sandbox could use this flaw to bypass connection restrictions defined in the policy.
CVE-2011-3389
A flaw was found in the way the SSL 3 and TLS 1.0 protocols used block ciphers in cipher-block chaining (CBC) mode. An attacker able to perform a chosen plain text attack against a connection mixing trusted and untrusted data could use this flaw to recover portions of the trusted data sent over the connection.
CVE-2011-3547
Note: This update mitigates the CVE-2011-3389 issue by splitting the first application data record byte to a separate SSL/TLS protocol record. This mitigation may cause compatibility issues with some SSL/TLS implementations and can be disabled using the jsse.enableCBCProtection boolean property. This can be done on the command line by appending the flag "-Djsse.enableCBCProtection=false" to the java command.
An information leak flaw was found in the InputStream.skip implementation. An untrusted Java application or applet could possibly use this flaw to obtain bytes skipped by other threads.
CVE-2011-3558
A flaw was found in the Java HotSpot virtual machine. An untrusted Java application or applet could use this flaw to disclose portions of the VM memory, or cause it to crash.
CVE-2011-3553
The Java API for XML Web Services (JAX-WS) implementation in OpenJDK was configured to include the stack trace in error messages sent to clients. A remote client could possibly use this flaw to obtain sensitive information.
CVE-2011-3552
It was found that Java applications running with SecurityManager restrictions were allowed to use too many UDP sockets by default. If multiple instances of a malicious application were started at the same time, they could exhaust all available UDP sockets on the system.
This erratum also upgrades the OpenJDK package to IcedTea6 1.9.10. Refer to the NEWS file for further information.
All users of java-1.6.0-openjdk are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues. All running instances of OpenJDK Java must be restarted for the update to take effect.
Updated java-1.6.0-openjdk packages that fix various bugs and provide several enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
These packages provide the OpenJDK 6 Java Runtime Environment and the OpenJDK 6 Software Development Kit.
The java-1.6.0-openjdk package has been upgraded to upstream version 1.9.7, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#658208)

Bug Fix

BZ#659300
In Java GUI (graphical user interface) applications, placeholder characters were displayed when run in the Japanese locale. This happened because the fontconfig file defined a mapping to an unavailable font. With this update, the IPA or VLGothic fonts are mapped instead and Japanese characters are displayed correctly.
All users of java-1.6.0-openjdk are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve these issues and add these enhancements.

1.112. java-1.6.0-sun

Updated java-1.6.0-sun packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extras, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
The Sun 1.6.0 Java release includes the Sun Java 6 Runtime Environment and the Sun Java 6 Software Development Kit.

Security Fixes

CVE-2011-3389, CVE-2011-3516, CVE-2011-3521, CVE-2011-3544, CVE-2011-3545, CVE-2011-3546, CVE-2011-3547, CVE-2011-3548, CVE-2011-3549, CVE-2011-3550, CVE-2011-3551, CVE-2011-3552, CVE-2011-3553, CVE-2011-3554, CVE-2011-3555, CVE-2011-3556, CVE-2011-3557, CVE-2011-3558, CVE-2011-3560, CVE-2011-3561
This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the Sun Java 6 Runtime Environment and the Sun Java 6 Software Development Kit. Further information about these flaws can be found on the Oracle Java SE Critical Patch page.
All users of java-1.6.0-sun are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which provide JDK and JRE 6 Update 29 and resolve these issues. All running instances of Sun Java must be restarted for the update to take effect.
Updated java-1.6.0-sun packages that fix several security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Extras, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 Supplementary.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having critical security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
The Sun 1.6.0 Java release includes the Sun Java 6 Runtime Environment and the Sun Java 6 Software Development Kit.

Security Fixes

CVE-2011-0802, CVE-2011-0814, CVE-2011-0862, CVE-2011-0863, CVE-2011-0864, CVE-2011-0865, CVE-2011-0867, CVE-2011-0868, CVE-2011-0869, CVE-2011-0871, CVE-2011-0873
This update fixes several vulnerabilities in the Sun Java 6 Runtime Environment and the Sun Java 6 Software Development Kit. Further information about these flaws can be found on the Oracle Java SE Critical Patch Update Advisory page.
All users of java-1.6.0-sun are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which provide JDK and JRE 6 Update 26 and resolve these issues. All running instances of Sun Java must be restarted for the update to take effect.

1.113. jss

Updated jss packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise 6.
JSS is a Java binding to Network Security Services (NSS), which provides SSL/TLS network protocols and other security services in the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) suite. JSS is primarily utilized by the Certificate Server.
Bug Fixes
BZ#656094
With this update, JSS has been upgraded to upstream version 4.2.6, which provides a number of bug fixes over the previous version. This rebase is necessary to support the Certificate Server.
BZ#676179
Previously, JSS did not release a PK11 slot. Due to this problem, a resource leak occurred and prevented NSS from shutting down because NSS detected that resources were still in use. This update corrects the resource leak and allows NSS to shutdown.
All users of JSS are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

1.114. kabi-whitelists

An updated kabi-whitelists package that adds two enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The kabi-whitelists package contains reference files documenting interfaces provided by the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kernel that are considered to be stable by Red Hat kernel engineering, and safe for longer term use by third party loadable device drivers, as well as for other purposes.
Enhancements
BZ#636975
This update removes the "blk_queue_ordered" and the "blk_queue_physical_block_size" symbols from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 kernel ABI whitelists.
BZ#682967
This update adds several newly approved interfaces to the kernel ABI whitelists.
Note: It is not necessary to install the kabi-whitelists package in order to use Driver Updates. The kabi-whitelists package only provides reference files for use by those creating Driver Update packages, or for those who wish to enable support for verification of kernel ABI compatibility by installing the appropriate Yum plugin.
Users of kabi-whitelists are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which adds these enhancements.

1.115. kdelibs

Updated kdelibs packages that fix one security issue and add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
The kdelibs packages provide libraries for the K Desktop Environment (KDE).

Security Fix

CVE-2011-3365
An input sanitization flaw was found in the KSSL (KDE SSL Wrapper) API. An attacker could supply a specially-crafted SSL certificate (for example, via a web page) to an application using KSSL, such as the Konqueror web browser, causing misleading information to be presented to the user, possibly tricking them into accepting the certificate as valid.
Enhancement
BZ#743951
kdelibs provided its own set of trusted Certificate Authority (CA) certificates. This update makes kdelibs use the system set from the ca-certificates package, instead of its own copy.
Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct this issue and add this enhancement. The desktop must be restarted (log out, then log back in) for this update to take effect.
Updated kdelibs packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5 and updated kdelibs3 packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 that fix one security issue are now available.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
The kdelibs and kdelibs3 packages provide libraries for the K Desktop Environment (KDE).

Security Fix

CVE-2011-3365
An input sanitization flaw was found in the KSSL (KDE SSL Wrapper) API. An attacker could supply a specially-crafted SSL certificate (for example, via a web page) to an application using KSSL, such as the Konqueror web browser, causing misleading information to be presented to the user, possibly tricking them into accepting the certificate as valid.
Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue. The desktop must be restarted (log out, then log back in) for this update to take effect.

1.116. kernel

Updated kernel packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Update Support.
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
When an NTP server asserts the STA_INS flag (Leap Second Insert), the kernel starts an hrtimer (high-resolution timer) with a countdown clock. This hrtimer expires at end of the current month, midnight UTC, and inserts a second into the kernel timekeeping structures. A scheduled leap second occurred on June 30 2012 midnight UTC.

Bug Fixes

BZ#840948
Previously in the kernel, when the leap second hrtimer was started, it was possible that the kernel livelocked on the xtime_lock variable. This update fixes the problem by using a mixture of separate subsystem locks (timekeeping and ntp) and removing the xtime_lock variable, thus avoiding the livelock scenarios that could occur in the kernel.
BZ#847364
After the leap second was inserted, applications calling system calls that used futexes consumed almost 100% of available CPU time. This occurred because the kernel's timekeeping structure update did not properly update these futexes. The futexes repeatedly expired, re-armed, and then expired immediately again. This update fixes the problem by properly updating the futex expiration times by calling the clock_was_set_delayed() function, an interrupt-safe method of the clock_was_set() function.
All users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.
Updated kernel packages that fix several bugs and add an enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Update Support.
[Updated 23 Oct 2012] This advisory has been updated with an accurate value of the clock drift for BZ#853951 (+/- 20 MHz). This update does not change the packages in any way.
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Bug Fixes

BZ#844943
Prior to this update, the find_busiest_group() function used sched_group->cpu_power in the denominator of a fraction with a value of 0. Consequently, a kernel panic occurred. This update prevents the divide by zero in the kernel and the panic no longer occurs.
BZ#846830
Previously, the TCP socket bound to NFS server contained a stale skb_hints socket buffer. Consequently, kernel could terminate unexpectedly. A patch has been provided to address this issue and skb_hints is now properly cleared from the socket, thus preventing this bug.
BZ#853255
Previously, when a server attempted to shut down a socket, the svc_tcp_sendto() function set the XPT_CLOSE variable if the entire reply failed to be transmitted. However, before XPT_CLOSE could be acted upon, other threads could send further replies before the socket was really shut down. Consequently, data corruption could occur in the RPC record marker. With this update, send operations on a closed socket are stopped immediately, thus preventing this bug.
BZ#853951
When a PIT (Programmable Interval Timer) MSB (Most Significant Byte) transition occurred very close to an SMI (System Management Interrupt) execution, the pit_verify_msb() function did not see the MSB transition. Consequently, the pit_expect_msb() function returned success incorrectly, eventually causing a large clock drift in the quick_pit_calibrate() function. As a result, the TSC (Time Stamp Counter) calibration on some systems was off by +/- 20 MHz, which led to inaccurate timekeeping or ntp synchronization failures. This update fixes pit_expect_msb() and the clock drift no longer occurs in the described scenario.

Enhancement

BZ#847731
This update adds support for the Proportional Rate Reduction (PRR) algorithms for the TCP protocol. This algorithm determines TCP's sending rate in fast recovery. PRR avoids excessive window reductions and improves accuracy of the amount of data sent during loss recovery. In addition, a number of other enhancements and bug fixes for TCP are part of this update.
All users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add this enhancement. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.
Updated kernel packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Update Support.
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.

Bug Fix

BZ#891859
On Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, mounting an NFS export from a Windows 2012 server failed due to the fact that the Windows server contains support for the minor version 1 (v4.1) of the NFS version 4 protocol only, along with support for versions 2 and 3. The lack of the minor version 0 (v4.0) support caused Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 clients to fail instead of rolling back to version 3 as expected. This update fixes this bug and mounting an NFS export works as expected.
All users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Important

This update has already been released as the security errata RHSA-2011:0542
Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, address several hundred bugs, and add numerous enhancements are now available as part of the ongoing support and maintenance of Red Hat Enterprise Linux version 6. This is the first regular update.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links after each description below.
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Security Fixes
* Multiple buffer overflow flaws were found in the Linux kernel's Management Module Support for Message Passing Technology (MPT) based controllers. A local, unprivileged user could use these flaws to cause a denial of service, an information leak, or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2011-1494, CVE-2011-1495, Important)
* A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Ethernet bonding driver implementation. Packets coming in from network devices that have more than 16 receive queues to a bonding interface could cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1581, Important)
* A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's networking subsystem. If the number of packets received exceeded the receiver's buffer limit, they were queued in a backlog, consuming memory, instead of being discarded. A remote attacker could abuse this flaw to cause a denial of service (out-of-memory condition). (CVE-2010-4251, Moderate)
* A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Transparent Huge Pages (THP) implementation. A local, unprivileged user could abuse this flaw to allow the user stack (when it is using huge pages) to grow and cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-0999, Moderate)
* A flaw was found in the transmit methods (xmit) for the loopback and InfiniBand transports in the Linux kernel's Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) implementation. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1023, Moderate)
* A flaw in the Linux kernel's Event Poll (epoll) implementation could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1082, Moderate)
* An inconsistency was found in the interaction between the Linux kernel's method for allocating NFSv4 (Network File System version 4) ACL data and the method by which it was freed. This inconsistency led to a kernel panic which could be triggered by a local, unprivileged user with files owned by said user on an NFSv4 share. (CVE-2011-1090, Moderate)
* A missing validation check was found in the Linux kernel's mac_partition() implementation, used for supporting file systems created on Mac OS operating systems. A local attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service by mounting a disk that contains specially-crafted partitions. (CVE-2011-1010, Low)
* A buffer overflow flaw in the DEC Alpha OSF partition implementation in the Linux kernel could allow a local attacker to cause an information leak by mounting a disk that contains specially-crafted partition tables. (CVE-2011-1163, Low)
* Missing validations of null-terminated string data structure elements in the do_replace(), compat_do_replace(), do_ipt_get_ctl(), do_ip6t_get_ctl(), and do_arpt_get_ctl() functions could allow a local user who has the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability to cause an information leak. (CVE-2011-1170, CVE-2011-1171, CVE-2011-1172, Low)
Red Hat would like to thank Dan Rosenberg for reporting CVE-2011-1494 and CVE-2011-1495; Nelson Elhage for reporting CVE-2011-1082; Timo Warns for reporting CVE-2011-1010 and CVE-2011-1163; and Vasiliy Kulikov for reporting CVE-2011-1170, CVE-2011-1171, and CVE-2011-1172.
Bug Fixes
BZ#622327
Previously, an operation such as madvise(MADV_MERGEABLE) may have split VMAs (Virtual Memory Area) without checking if any huge page had to be split into regular pages, leading to huge pages to be still mapped in VMA ranges that would not be large enough to fit huge pages. With this update, huge pages are checked whether they have been split when any VMA is being truncated.
BZ#640576
Occasionally, the anon_vma variable could contain the value null in the page_address_in_vma function and cause kernel panic. With this update, kernel panic no longer occurs.
BZ#640579
Previously, building under memory pressure with KSM (Kernel Shared Memory) caused KSM to collapse with an internal compiler error indicating an error in swapping. With this update, data corruption during swapping no longer occurs.
BZ#640611
The fork() system call led to an rmap walk finding the parent huge-pmd twice instead of once, thus causing a discrepancy between the mapcount and page_mapcount check, which could have led to erratic page counts for subpages. This fix ensures that the rmap walk is accurate when a process is forked, thus resolving the issue.
BZ#642570
The fork() system call led to an rmap walk finding the parent huge-pmd twice instead of once, thus causing a discrepancy between the mapcount and page_mapcount check, which could have led to erratic page counts for subpages. This fix ensures that the rmap walk is accurate when a process is forked, thus resolving the issue.
BZ#646384
Running certain workload tests on a Non-Uniform Memory Architecture (NUMA) system could cause kernel panic at mm/migrate.c:113. This was due to a false positive BUG_ON. With this update, the false positive BUG_ON has been removed.
BZ#622640
If an Intel 82598 10 Gigabit Ethernet Controller was configured in a way that caused peer-to-peer traffic to be sent to the Intel X58 I/O hub (IOH), a PCIe credit starvation problem occurred. As a result, the system would hang. With this update, the system continues to work and does not hang.
BZ#637332
The ixgbe driver has been upgraded to upstream version 3.0.12, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version.
BZ#696337
During light or no network traffic, the active-backup interface bond using ARP monitoring with validation could go down and return due to an overflow or underflow of system timer interrupt ticks (jiffies). With this update, the jiffies calculation issues problems have been fixed and a bond interface works as expected.
BZ#609516
Booting a system via the Extensible Firmware Interface (EFI) could result in a low resolution of the boot screen due to a VGA palette corruption. With this update, the VGA palette corruption no longer occurs and the boot screen is displayed in the correct resolution and colors.
BZ#626454
Systems with an updated Video BIOS for the AMD RS880 would not properly boot with KMS (Kernel mode-setting) enabled. With this update, the Video BIOS boots successfully when KMS is enabled.
BZ#640870
This update fixes the slow memory leak in the i915 module in DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) and GEM (Graphics Execution Manager).
BZ#640871
Previously, a race condition in the TTM (Translation Table Maps) module of the DRM (Direct Rendering Manager) between the object destruction thread and object eviction could result in a major loss of large objects reference counts. Consequently, this caused a major amount of memory leak. With this update, the race condition no longer occurs and any memory leaks are prevented.
BZ#644896
When booting the latest Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kernel (-78.el6), the system hanged shortly after the booting. Access to the file system died and the console started outputting soft lockup messages from the TTM code. With this update, the aforementioned behavior no longer occurs and the system boots as expected.
BZ#530618
Under some circumstances, a kernel panic on installation or boot may occur if the "Interrupt Remapping" feature is enabled in the BIOS. To work around this issue, disable interrupt remapping in the BIOS.
BZ#681017
Under some circumstances, faulty logic in the system BIOS could report that ASPM (Active State Power Management) was not supported on the system, but leave ASPM enabled on a device. This could lead to AER (Advanced Error Reporting) errors that the kernel was unable to handle. With this update, the kernel proactively disables ASPM on devices when the BIOS reports that ASPM is not supported, safely eliminating the aforementioned issues.
BZ#624628
Prior to this update, a guest could use the poll() function to find out whether the host-side connection was open or closed. However, with a SIGIO signal, this can be done asynchronously, without having to explicitly poll each port. With this update, a SIGIO signal is sent for any host connect/disconnect events. Once the SIGIO signal is received, the open/close status of virtio-serial ports can be obtained using the poll() system call.
BZ#628805
The virtio-console device did not handle the hot-unplug operation properly. As a result, virtio-console could access the memory outside the driver's memory area and cause kernel panic on the guest. With this update, multiple fixes to the virtio-console device resolved this issue and the hot-unplug operation works as expected.
BZ#634232
Applications and agents using virtio serial ports would block messages even though there were messages queued up and ready to be read in the virtqueue. This was due to virtio_console's poll function checking whether a port was NULL to determine if a read operation would result in a block of the port. However, in some cases, a port can be NULL even though there are buffers left in the virtqueue to be read. This update introduces a more sophisticated method of checking whether a port contains any data; thus, preventing queued up messages from being incorrectly blocked.
BZ#635535
Prior to this update, user space could submit (using the write() operation) a buffer with zero length to be written to the host, causing the qemu hypervisor instance running on that host to crash. This was caused by the write() operation triggering a virtqueue event on the host, causing a NULL buffer to be accessed. With this update, user space is no longer allowed to submit zero-sized buffers and the aforementioned crash no longer occur.
BZ#643750
Using a virtio serial port from an application, filling it until the write command returns -EAGAIN and then executing a select command for the write command, caused the select command to not return any values when using the virtio serial port in a non-blocking mode. When used in blocking mode, the write command waited until the host indicated it had used up the buffers. This was due to the fact that the poll operation waited for the port->waitqueue pointer; however, nothing woke the waitqueue when there was room again in the queue. With this update, the queue is woken via host notifications so that buffers consumed by the host can be reclaimed, the queue freed, and the application write operations may proceed again.
BZ#643751
If a host was slow in reading data or did not read data at all, blocking write() calls not only blocked the program that called the write() call but also the entire guest. This was caused by the write() calls waiting until an acknowledgment that the data consumed was received from the host. With this update, write() calls no longer wait for such acknowledgment: control is immediately returned to the user space application. This ensures that even if the host is busy processing other data or is not consuming data at all, the guest is not blocked.
BZ#605786
Please note that in future versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (i.e. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 and later) the auto value setting of the crashkernel= parameter (i.e. crashkernel=auto) is deprecated.
BZ#675102
Prior to this update, the /usr/include/linux/fs.h file was broken, causing other packages to fail to build. With this update, the underlying source code has been modified to address this issue, and packages no longer fail to build.
BZ#629178
Prior to this update, the execve utility exhibited the following flaw. When an argument and any environment data were copied from an old task's user stack to the user stack of a newly-execve'd task, the kernel would not allow the process to be interrupted or rescheduled. Therefore, when the argument or environment string data was (abnormally) large, there was no "interactivity" with the process while the execve() function was transferring the data. With this update, fatal signals (like CTRL+c) can now be received and handled and a process is allowed to yield to higher priority processes during the data transfer.
BZ#616296
While not mandated by any specification, Linux systems rely on NMIs (Non-maskable Interrupts) being blocked by an IF-enabling (Interrupt Flag) STI instruction (an x86 instruction that enables interrupts; Set Interrupts); this is also the common behavior of all known hardware. Prior to this update, kernel panic could occur on guests using NMIs extensively (for example, a Linux system with the nmi_watchdog kernel parameter enabled). With this update, an NMI is disallowed when interrupts are blocked by an STI. This is done by checking for the condition and requesting an interrupt window exit if it occurs. As a result, kernel panic no longer occurs.
BZ#645898
Prior to this update, running context-switch intensive workloads on KVM guests resulted in a large number of exits (kvm_exit) due to control register (CR) accesses by the guest, thus, resulting in poor performance. This update includes a number of optimizations which allow the guest not to exit to the hypervisor in the aforementioned case and improve the overall performance.
BZ#626814
In some cases the NFS server fails to notify NFSv4 clients about renames and unlinks done by other clients, or by non-NFS users of the server. An application on a client may then be able to open the file at its old pathname (and read old cached data from it, and perform read locks on it), long after the file no longer exists at that pathname on the server. To work around this issue, use NFSv3 instead of NFSv4. Alternatively, turn off support for leases by writing 0 to /proc/sys/fs/leases-enable (ideally on boot, before the nfs server is started). This change prevents NFSv4 delegations from being given out, restoring correctness at the expense of some performance.
BZ#695488
In a four node cluster environment, a deadlock could occur on machines in the cluster when the nodes accessed a GFS2 file system. This resulted in memory fragmentation which caused the number of network packet fragments in requests to exceed the network hardware limit. The network hardware firmware dropped the network packets exceeding this limit. With this update, the network packet fragmentation was reduced to the limit of the network hardware, no longer causing problems during memory fragmentation.
BZ#627741
The zfcpdump (kdump) kernel on IBM System z could not be debugged using the dump analysis tool crash, because the vmlinux file in the kernel-kdump-debuginfo RPM did not contain DWARF debug information. With this update, the CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL parameter is set to yes and the needed debug information is provided.
BZ#647365
On IBM System z systems, user space programs could access the /dev/mem file (which contains an image of main memory), where an accidental memory (write) access could potentially be harmful. To restrict access to memory from user space through the /dev/mem file, the CONFIG_STRICT_DEVMEM configuration option has been enabled for the default kernel. The kdump and debug kernels have this option switched off by default.
BZ#668470
If a CPU is set offline, the nohz_load_balancer CPU is updated. However, under certain circumstances, the nohz_load_balancer CPU would not be updated, causing the offlined CPU to be enqueued with various timers which never expired. As a result, the system could become unresponsive. With this update, the nohz_load_balancer CPU is always updated; systems no longer become unresponsive.
BZ#636678
Previously, in order to install Snapshot 13, boot parameter nomodeset xforcevesa had to be added to the kernel command line, otherwise, the screen turned black and prevented the installation. With this update, the aforementioned boot parameter no longer has to be specified and the installation works as expected.
BZ#635710
The qla2xxx driver for QLogic Fibre Channel Host Bus Adapters (HBAs) has been updated to upstream version 8.03.05.01.06.1-k0, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version.
BZ#695478
The driver for the NetXen NX3031 network adapter did not support more than 14 fragments for a non-TSO (TCP Segmentation Offload) packet, which could have caused network failures. This update corrects the driver.
BZ#641764
Previously, accounting of reclaimable inodes did not work correctly. When an inode was reclaimed it was only deleted from the per-AG (per Allocation Group) tree. Neither the counter was decreased, nor was the parent tree's AG entry untagged properly. This caused the system to hang indefinitely. With this update, the accounting of reclaimable inodes works properly and the system remains responsive.
BZ#632021
If a Xen guest which specifies a physical path such as /dev/sda1 in its /etc/fstab configuration file, instead of a labeled path, then the following workaround procedure should be followed:
  1. The "xen_emul_unplug=never" option should be added to the guest's kernel boot line.
  2. The /etc/fstab entry should be modified to specify a partition such as /dev/xvda1 for the /boot partition, or a proper partition label should be used for the file systems on the emulated block device.
  3. Finally, if the Xen guest configuration spec uses a line similar to the following:
    disk = [ 'file:/var/lib/xen/images/rhel6-guest.dsk,hda,w', ]
    …then that line should be changed to:
    disk = [ 'tap:aio:/var/lib/xen/images/rhel6-guest.dsk,hda,w', ]
    This line needs to be changed because the Xen para-virtualized disk driver is not supported with file-backed I/O.
BZ#680126
Using the pam_tty_audit.so module (which enables or disables TTY auditing for specified users) in the /etc/pam.d/sudo file and in the /etc/pam.d/system-auth file when the audit package is not installed resulted in soft lock-ups on CPUs. As a result, the kernel became unresponsive. This was due to the kernel exiting immediately after TTY auditing was disabled, without emptying the buffer, which caused the kernel to spin in a loop, copying 0 bytes at each iteration and attempting to push each time without any effect. With this update, a locking mechanism is introduced to prevent the aforementioned behavior.
BZ#625914
Previously, a kernel module not shipped by Red Hat was successfully loaded when the FIPS boot option was enabled. With this update, kernel self-integrity is improved by rejecting to load kernel modules which are not shipped by Red Hat when the FIPS boot option is enabled.
BZ#631547
Previously the cxgb3 (Chelsio Communications T3 10Gb Ethernet) adapter experienced parity errors. With this update, the parity errors are correctly detected and the cxgb3 adapter successfully recovers from them.
BZ#698016
When the iscsi driver detected the platform option-rom, it bypassed its local defaults and used the platform-provided parameters. With this update, if the platform specifies invalid OEM parameters, a warning message is printed, and the iSCSI driver falls back on its sensible internal default parameters rather than failing to load the driver altogether.
BZ#694106
After a raid45->raid0 takeover operation, another takeover operation (for example, raid0->raid5) resulted in kernel panic. This was due to the 'degraded' and 'plug' variables from the mddev structure not being cleared after the raid4->raid0 takeover. With this update, aforementioned variables are properly cleared, and no longer cause kernel panic.
BZ#550724
In some cases, under a small system load involve some I/O operation, processes started to lock up in the D state (that is, became unresponsive). The system load could in some cases climb steadily. This was due to the way the event channel IRQ (Interrupt Request) was set up. Xen events behave like edge-triggered IRQs, however, the kernel was setting them up as level-triggered IRQs. As a result, any action using Xen event channels could lock up a process in the D state. With this update, the handling has been changed from edge-triggered IRQs to level-triggered IRQs and process no longer lock up in the D state.
BZ#643371
A race condition occurred when Xen was presented with an inconsistent page type resulting in the crash of the kernel. With this update, the race condition is prevented and kernel crashes no longer occur.
BZ#645198
The Red Hat Enterprise Linux kernel can now be tainted with a "tech preview" status. If a kernel module causes the tainted status, then running the command "cat /proc/modules" will display a "(T)" next to any module that is tainting the kernel.
For more information about Technology Previews, refer to:

Important

Running a kernel with the tainted flag set may limit the amount of support that Red Hat can provide for the system.
BZ#694913
The "perf" subsystem failed to load on HP ProLiant servers, and messages similar to the following were logged to the console at boot time:
NMI watchdog disabled for cpu1: unable to create perf event: -2
This update includes a patch that allows the "perf" subsystem to load when using these servers, but only using the same counter that the BIOS uses. The implications of this are that "perf" statistics could be corrupted.
BZ#643667
Previously, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 enabled the CONFIG_IMA option in the kernel. This caused the kernel to track all inodes in the system in a radix tree, leading to a huge waste of memory. With this update, an optimized version of a tree (rbtree) is used and memory is no longer wasted.
BZ#615309
Direct Asynchronous I/O (AIO) which is not issued on file system block boundaries, and falls into a hole in a sparse file on ext4 or xfs file systems, may corrupt file data if multiple I/O operations modify the same file system block. Specifically, if qemu-kvm is used with the aio=native I/O mode over a sparse device image hosted on the ext4 or xfs filesystem, guest file system corruption will occur if partitions are not aligned with the host file system block size. This issue can be avoided by using one of the following techniques:
  1. Align AIOs on file system block boundaries, or do not write to sparse files using AIO on xfs or ext4 filesystems.
  2. KVM: Use a non-sparse system image file or allocate the space by zeroing out the entire file.
  3. KVM: Create the image using an ext3 host filesystem instead of ext4.
  4. KVM: Invoke qemu-kvm with aio=threads (this is the default).
  5. KVM: Align all partitions within the guest image to the host's file system block boundary (default 4k).
BZ#624909
Running a fsstress test which issues various operations on a ext4 filesystem when usrquota is enabled, the following JBD (Journaling Block Device) error was output in /var/log/messages:
JBD: Spotted dirty metadata buffer (dev = sda10, blocknr = 17635). There's a risk of filesystem corruption in case of system crash.
With this update, by always journaling the quota file modification in an ext4 file system the aforementioned message no longer appears in the logs.
BZ#593766
The /var/log/messages file could have slowly filled up with error messages similar to the following:
ACPI Error: Illegal I/O port address/length above 64K: 0x0000000000400020/4 (20090903/hwvalid-154)
ACPI Exception: AE_LIMIT, Returned by Handler for [SystemIO] (20090903/evregion-424)
ACPI Error (psparse-0537): Method parse/execution failed [\_GPE._L09] (Node ffff8800797cd298), AE_LIMIT
ACPI Exception: AE_LIMIT, while evaluating GPE method [_L09] (20090903/evgpe-568)
This error message no longer occurs with this update.
BZ#653245
The kernel syslog contains debugging information that is often useful during exploitation of other vulnerabilities such as kernel heap addresses. With this update, a new CONFIG_SECURITY_DMESG_RESTRICT option has been added to config-generic-rhel which prevents unprivileged users from reading the kernel syslog. This option is by default turned off (0), which means no restrictions.
BZ#627653
A regression was discovered that caused kernel panic during the booting of any SGI UV100 and UV1000 system unless the virtefi command line option was passed to the kernel by GRUB. With this update, the need for the virtefi command line option is removed and the kernel will boots as expected without it.
BZ#659480
Prior to this update, running the hwclock --systohc command could halt a running system. This was due to the interrupt transactions being looped back from a local IOH (Input/Output Hub), through the IOH to a local CPU (erroneously), which caused a conflict with I/O port operations and other transactions. With this update, the conflicts are avoided and the system continues to run after executing the hwclock --systohc command.
BZ#621304
The RELEASE_LOCKOWNER operation has been implemented for the NFSv4 client in order to avoid an exhaustion of NFS server state IDs, which could result in an NFS4ERR_RESOURCE error. Additionally, this update introduces NFSv4 lock state tracking in read/write requests and lock owners labeling.
BZ#626515
An implementation of the SHA (Secure Hash Algorithm) hashing algorithm for the IBM System z architecture did not produce correct hashes and could potentially cause memory corruption due to broken partial block handling. A partial block could break when it was followed by an update which filled it with leftover bytes. Instead of storing the new leftover bytes at the start of the buffer, they were stored immediately after the previous partial block. With this update, the index pointer is reset, thus resolving the aforementioned partial block handling issue.
BZ#661113
Outgoing packets were not fragmented after receiving the icmpv6 pkt-too-big message when using the IPSecv6 tunnel mode. This was due to the lack of IPv6 fragmentation support over an IPsec tunnel. With this update, IPv6 fragmentation is fully supported and works as expected when using the IPSecv6 tunnel mode.
BZ#630810
Prior to this update, performing live migration back and forth during guest installation with network adapters based on the 8168c chipset or the 8111c chipset triggered an rtl8169_interrupt hang due to a RxFIFO overflow. With this update, infinite loops in the IRQ (Interrupt Request) handler caused by RxFIFO overflows are prevented and the aforementioned hang no longer occurs.
BZ#629066
When booting a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.5 kernel on a guest on an AMD host system running Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, the guest kernel crashes due to an unsupported MSR (Model Specific Registers) read of the MSR_K7_CLK_CTL model. With this update, KVM support was added for the MSR_K7_CLK_CTL model specific register used in the AMD K7 CPU models, thus, the kernel crashes no longer occur.
BZ#629836
Previously, a Windows XP host experienced the stop error screen (i.e. the "Blue Screen Of Death" error) when booted with the CPU mode name. With this update, a Windows XP host no longer experiences the aforementioned error due to added KVM (Kernel-based Virtual Machine) support for the MSR_EBC_FREQUENCY_ID model specific register.
BZ#629085
Under certain circumstances, a kernel thread that handles incoming messages from a server could unexpectedly exit by itself. As a result, the kernel thread would free some data structures which could then be referenced by another data structure, resulting in a kernel panic. With this update, kernel threads no longer unexpectedly exit; thus, kernel panic no longer occurs in the aforementioned case.
BZ#641408
Previously, calling the elevator_change function immediately after the blk_init_queue function resulted in a null pointer dereference. With this update, the null pointer dereference no longer occurs.
BZ#623199
In certain network setups (specifically, using VLAN on certain NICs where packets are sent through the VLAN GRO rx path), sending packets from an active ethernet port to another inactive ethernet port could affect the network's bridge and cause the bridge to acquire a wrong bridge port. This resulted in all packets not being passed along in the network. With this update, the underlying source code has been modified to address this issue, and network traffic works as expected.
BZ#683496
Prior to this update, adding a bond over a bridge inside a virtual guest caused the kernel to crash due to a NULL dereference. This update improves the tests for the presence of VLANs configured above bonding (additionally, this update fixes a regression introduced by the patch for BZ#633571) . The new logic determines whether a registration has occurred, instead of testing that the internal vlan_list of a bond is empty. Previously, the system panicked and crashed when vlan_list was not empty, but the vlgrp pointer was still NULL.
BZ#592879
The memory cgroup controller has its own Out of Memory routine (OOM killer) and kills a process at an OOM event. However, a race condition could cause the pagefault_out_of_memory function to be called after the memory cgroup's OOM. This invoked the generic OOM killer and a panic_on_oom could occur. With this update, only the memory cgroup's OOM killer is invoked and used to kill a process should an OOM occur.
BZ#613812
This update provides a number of patches that resolve a mutual exclusion fault which could cause the kernel to become unresponsive.
BZ#634500
Previously, MADV_HUGEPAGE was missing in the include/asm-generic/mman-common.h file which caused madvise to fail to utilize TPH. With this update, the madvise option was removed from /sys/kernel/mm/redhat_transparent_hugepage/enabled since MADV_HUGEPAGE was removed from the madvise system call.
BZ#619818
If device-mapper-multipath is used, and the default path failure timeout value (/sys/class/fc_remote_ports/rport-xxx/dev_loss_tmo) is changed, that the timeout value will revert to the default value after a path fails, and later restored. Note that this issue will present the lpfc, qla2xxx, ibmfc or fnic Fibre Channel drivers. To work around this issue the dev_loss_tmo value must be adjusted after each path fail/restore event
BZ#633907
During an installation through Cisco NPV (N port virtualization) to Brocade, adding a LUN (Logical Unit Number) through Add Advanced Target did not work properly. This was caused by the faulty resending of FLOGI (Fabric Login) when a Fibre Channel switch in the NPV mode rejected requests with zero Destination ID. With this update, the LUN is seen and able to be selected for installation.
BZ#633915
An I/O operation could fast fail when using Device Mapper Multipathing (dm-multipath) if the I/O operation could be retried by the scsi layer. This prevented the multipath layer from starting its error recovery procedure and resulted in unnecessary log messages in the appropriate log files. This update includes a number of optimizations that resolve the aforementioned issue.
BZ#636233
Previously, timing issues could cause the FIP (FCoE Initialization Protocol) FLOGIs to timeout even if there were no problems. This caused the kernel to go into a non-FIP mode even though it should have been in the FIP mode. With this update, the timing issues no longer occur and the kernel no longer switches to the non-FIP mode when logging to the Fibre Channel Switch/Forwarder.
BZ#636771
A Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 host (with root on a local disk) with dm-multipath configured on multiple LUNs (Logical Unit Number) hit kernel panic (at scsi_error_handler) with target controller faults during an I/O operation on the dm-multipath devices. This was caused by multipath using the blk_abort_queue() function to allow lower latency path deactivation. The call to blk_abort_queue proved to be unsafe due to a race (between blk_abort_queue and scsi_request_fn). With this update, the race has been resolved and kernel panic no longer occurs on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.0 hosts.
BZ#638297
When an scsi command timed out and the fcoe/libfc driver aborted the command, a race could occur during the clean-up of the command which could result in kernel panic. With this update, the locking mechanism in the clean-up and abort paths was modified, thus, fixing the aforementioned issue.
BZ#643237
Prior to this update, when using Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 with a qla4xxx driver and FC (Fibre Channel) drivers using the fc class, a device might have been put in the offline state due to a transport problem. Once the transport problem was resolved, the device was not usable until a user manually corrected the state. This update enables the transition from the offline state to the running state, thus, fixing the problem.
BZ#668114
Operating in the FIP (FCoE Initialization Protocol) mode and performing operations that bring up ports could cause the fcoe.ko and fnic.ko modules to not be able to re-login when a port was brought back up. This was due to a bug in the FCoE (Fiber Channel over Ethernet) layer causing improper handling of FCoE LOGO frames while in the FIP mode. With this update, FCoE LOGO frames are properly handled when in the FIP mode and the fcoe.ko and fnic.ko modules no longer fail to re-login.
BZ#632631
Previously, the s390 tape block driver crashed whenever it tried to switch the I/O scheduler. With this update, an official in-kernel API (elevator_change()) is used to switch the I/O scheduler safely; thus, the crashes no longer occurs.
BZ#635199
The barrier implementation in the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 kernel works by completely draining the I/O scheduler's queue, then issuing a preflush, a barrier, and finally a postflush request. However, since the supported file systems in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 all implement their own ordering guarantees, the block layer need only provide a mechanism to ensure that a barrier request is ordered with respect to other I/O already in the disk cache. This mechanism avoids I/O stalls experienced by queue draining. The block layer will be updated in future kernels to provide this more efficient mechanism of ensuring ordering.
Workloads that include heavy fsync or metadata activity will see an overall improvement in disk performance. Users taking advantage of the proportional weight I/O controller will also see a boost in performance. In preparation for the block layer updates, third party file system developers need to ensure that data ordering surrounding journal commits are handled within the file system itself, since the block layer will no longer provide this functionality.
These future block layer improvements will change some kernel interfaces such that symbols which are not on the kABI whitelist shall be modified. This may result in the need to recompile third party file system or storage drivers.
BZ#636994
Handling ALUA (Asymmetric Logical Unit Access) transitioning states did not work properly due to a faulty SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) ALUA handler. With this update, optimized state transitioning prevents the aforementioned behavior.
BZ#637805
Previously, a write request may have merged with a discard request. This could have posed a potential risk for 3rd party drivers which could possibly issue a discard without waiting properly. With this update, discarding of write block I/O requests by preventing merges of discard and write requests in one block I/O has been introduced, resolving the possible risks.
BZ#638525
Previously, the /proc/maps file which is read by LVM2 (Logical Volume Manager) contained inconsistencies.
BZ#644380
Running the Virtual Desktop Server Manager (VDSM) and performing an lvextend during an intensive Virtual Guest power up caused this operation to fail. Since lvextend was blocked, all components became non-responsive: vgs and lvs commands froze the session, Virtual Guests became Paused or Not Responding. This was caused by a faulty use of a lock. With this update, performing an lvextend operation works as expected.
BZ#658293
The lack of synchronization between the clearing of the QUEUE_FLAG_CLUSTER flag and the setting of the no_cluster flag in the queue_limits variable caused corruption of data. Note that this issue only occurred on hardware that did not support segment merging (that is, clustering). With this update, the synchronization between the aforementioned flags works as expected, thus, corruption of data no longer occurs.
BZ#669411
Deleting an SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) device attached to a device handler caused applications running in user space, which were performing I/O operations on that device, to become unresponsive. This was due to the fact that the SCSI device handler's activation did not propagate the SCSI device deletion via an error code and a callback to the Device-Mapper Multipath. With this update, deletion of an SCSI device attached to a device handler is properly handled and no longer causes certain applications to become unresponsive.
BZ#670572
For a device that used a Target Portal Group (TPG) ID which occupied the full 2 bytes in the RTPG (Report Target Port Groups) response (with either byte exceeding the maximum value that may be stored in a signed char), the kernel's calculated TPG ID would never match the group_id that it should. As a result, this signed char overflow also caused the ALUA handler to incorrectly identify the Asymmetric Access State (AAS) of the specified device as well as incorrectly interpret the supported AAS of the target. With this update, the aforementioned issue has been addressed and no longer occurs.
BZ#680140
Deleting an SCSI (Small Computer System Interface) device attached to a device handler caused applications running in user space, which were performing I/O operations on that device, to become unresponsive. This was due to the fact that the SCSI device handler's activation did not propagate the SCSI device deletion via an error code and a callback to the Device-Mapper Multipath. With this update, deletion of an SCSI device attached to a device handler is properly handled and no longer causes certain applications to become unresponsive.
BZ#647367
Migrating a guest could have resulted in dirty values for the guest being retained in memory, which could have caused both the guest and qemu to crash. The trigger for this was memory pages being both write-protected and dirty simultaneously. With this update, memory pages in the current bitmap are either dirty or write-protected when migrating a guest, with the result that neither qemu nor guest operating systems crash following a migration.
BZ#676579
Intensive usage of resources on a guest lead to a failure of networking on that guest: packets could no longer be received. The failure occurred when a DMA (Direct Memory Access) ring was consumed before NAPI (New API; an interface for networking devices which makes use of interrupt mitigation techniques) was enabled which resulted in a failure to receive the next interrupt request. The regular interrupt handler was not affected in this situation (because it can process packets in-place), however, the OOM (Out Of Memory) handler did not detect the aforementioned situation and caused networking to fail. With this update, NAPI is subsequently scheduled for each napi_enable operation; thus, networking no longer fails under the aforementioned circumstances.
BZ#626956
The kernel panicked when booting the kdump kernel on a s390 system with an initramfs that contained an odd number of bytes. With this update, an initramfs with sufficient padding such that it contains an even number of bytes is generated; thus, the kernel no longer panics.
BZ#631246
Previously, the destination MAC address validation was not checking for NPIV (N_Port ID Virtualization) addresses, which results in FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) frames being dropped. With this update, the destination MAC address check for FCoE frames has been modified so that multiple N_port IDs can be multiplexed on a single physical N_port.
BZ#641315
Reading the /proc/vmcore file on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 system was not optimal because it did not always take advantage of reading through the cached memory. With this update, access to the /dev/oldmem device in the /proc/vmcore file is cached, resulting in faster copying to user space.
BZ#665110
Bonding, when operating in the ARP monitoring mode, made erroneous assumptions regarding the ownership of ARP frames when it received them for processing. Specifically, it was assumed that the bonding driver code was the only execution context which had access to the ARP frames network buffer data. As a result, an operation was attempted on the said buffer (specifically, to modify the size of the data buffer) which was forbidden by the kernel when a buffer was shared among several execution contexts. The result of such an operation on a shared buffer could lead to data corruption. Consequently, trying to prevent the corruption, the kernel panicked. This shared state in the network buffer could be forced to occur, for example, when running the tcpdump utility to monitor traffic on the bonding interface. Every buffer the bond interface received would be shared between the driver and the tcpdump process, thus, resulting in the aforementioned kernel panic. With this update, for the particular affected path in the bonding driver, each inbound frame is checked whether it is in the shared state. In case a buffer is shared, a private copy is made for exclusive use by the bonding driver, thus, preventing the kernel panic.
BZ#672937
Reading the /proc/vmcore file was previously significantly slower on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 system when compared to a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 system. This update enables caching of memory accesses; reading of the /proc/vmcore file is now noticeably faster.
BZ#680478
The kdump kernel (the second kernel) could in some cases become unresponsive due to a pending IPI (Inter-processor Interrupt) from the first kernel. The kernel tries to handle the IPI, but fails to do so due to a NULL pointer dereference. With this update, the underlying source code has been modified to address this issue, and kdump no longer hangs.
BZ#625585
Physical CPU Hotplug is not supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 i686.
BZ#681870
A Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) Active State Power Management (ASPM) was not being properly enabled on some platforms. This resulted in the system becoming unresponsive and followed by a Non-Maskable Interrupt (NMI) on some HP ProLiant systems in the Hewlett Packard Smart Array (HPSA) or on some network cards. With this update, the underlying source code has been modified to address this issue.
BZ#694891
Intel Xeon processor E7 family processors have an issue in which some c-state transitions can cause false correctable Machine Check Exception (MCE) errors to be reported from MCE bank 6 to the user. On some E7 processor family systems, this resulted in "floods" of MCE errors. This patch disables MCE error reporting for bank 6.
BZ#634703
Systems that have an Emulex FC controller (with SLI-3 based firmware) installed could return a kernel panic during installation. With this update, kernel panic no longer occurs during installation.
BZ#651584
Kernel panic could occur when the gfs2_glock_hold function was called within the gfs2_process_unlinked_inode function. This was due to the fact that gfs2_glock_hold was being called without a reference already held on the inode in question. This update, resolves this problem by changing the order in which it acquires references to match that of the NFS code; thus, kernel panic no longer occurs.
BZ#695751
A previously applied patch accidentally removed a check that handled invalid EEPROM (Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory) sizes. Without this check the EEPROM validation failed if the EEPROM size was invalid, causing the NIC (Network Interface Controller) to not function properly. This update reintroduces the aforementioned patch, fixing the problem.
BZ#628951
PowerPC systems having more than 1 TB of RAM could randomly crash or become unresponsive due to an incorrect setup of the Segment Lookaside Buffer (SLB) entry for the kernel stack. With this update, the SLB entry is properly set up.
BZ#636978
Previously, the vmstat (virtual memory statistics) tool incorrectly reported the disk I/O as swap-in on ppc64 and other architectures that do not support the TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE configuration option in the kernel. With this update, the vmstat tool no longer reports incorrect statistics and works as expected.
BZ#676640
The bnx2i driver could cause a system crash on IBM POWER7 systems. The driver's page tables were not set up properly on Big Endian machines, causing extended error handling (EEH) errors on PowerPC machines. With this update, the page tables are properly set up and a system crash no longer occurs in the aforementioned case.
BZ#678099
A race condition could occur during a threaded coredump causing some threads to not have a full register set. With this update, the underlying source code has been modified to address this issue and prevent the aforementioned race condition.
BZ#681668
If an EEH (Enhanced I/O Error Handling) error occurred too early in the boot process, the kernel panicked with an error message similar to the following:
Unable to handle kernel paging request for data at address 0x00000468
Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1]
This situation is detected and avoided with this update, with the result that the machine continues to boot normally.
BZ#683115
A race condition caused by a missing mutual exclusion lock in the device_pm_pre_add() function and the device_pm_pre_add_cleanup() function could occur during the booting of an IBM Power system. As a result, error diagnostic messages were displayed in dmesg. This update adds the missing mutual exclusion lock, resolving this issue.
BZ#684961
On the PowerPC architecture, a PCI adapter with two functions, one of which uses MSI (Message Signaled Interrupts), and one of which uses MSI-X (an extended version of MSI), could have triggered an EEH (Enhanced I/O Error Handling) from an MSI-X signal when MSI was disabled using an older interface. With this update, the newer interface is used to disable MSI, with the result that the adapter no longer signals a stray MSI-X interrupt, and no EEH is registered.
BZ#694327
A previously released patch added a spin_unlock into the dtl_disable function for the virtual processor dispatch trace log file. However, the dtl_function did not include a spin_unlock which could cause a deadlock to occur. With this update, the missing spin_unlock has been added, and a deadlock no longer occurs.
BZ#695678
Section 14.11.3.2 "H_REGISTER_VPA" in the POWER Architecture Platform Reference (PAPR) specified that Dispatch Trace Log (DTL) buffers could not cross Active Memory Sharing (AMS) environments and memory entitlement granule boundaries (of size 4kB). However, kmalloc (a method for allocating memory in the kernel) did not guarantee an alignment of the allocation beyond 8 bytes. This update adds a special kmem cache for DLT buffers with the aforementioned alignment requirement.
BZ#593566
Certain scan requests failed to complete before the network interface was brought down. As a result, a warning will appear in the kernel log regarding wdev_cleanup_work. In some cases connectivity may be lost until the next reboot. If connectivity is restored, then the warning may be safely ignored. In other cases, the driver module may need to be reloaded or the system may need to be rebooted.
BZ#633836
Installing a debug kernel caused the PERC (Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller) 700 adapter to enter an undefined state and produce incorrect error messages. This has been corrected so that installing the debug kernel no longer causes the PERC 700 adapter to enter an undefined state and display erroneous RAID DIMM error messages.
BZ#664832
Systems Management Applications using the libsmbios package could become unresponsive on Dell PowerEdge servers (specifically, Dell PowerEdge 2970 and Dell PowerEdge SC1435). The dcdbas driver can perform an I/O write operation which causes an SMI (System Management Interrupt) to occur. However, the SMI handler processed the SMI well after the outb function was processed, which caused random failures resulting in the aforementioned hang. With this update, the underlying source code has been modified to address this issue, and systems management applications using the libsmbios package no longer become unresponsive.
BZ#692673
If an error occurred during an I/O operation, the SCSI driver reset the megaraid_sas controller to restore it to normal state. However, on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, the waiting time to allow a full reset completion for the megaraid_sas controller was too short. The driver incorrectly recognized the controller as stalled, and, as a result, the system stalled as well. With this update, more time is given to the controller to properly restart, thus, the controller operates as expected after being reset.
BZ#638269
The lock reclaim operation on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 NFSv4 client did not work properly when, after a server reboot, an I/O operation which resulted in a STALE_STATEID response was performed before the RENEW call was sent to the server. This behavior was caused due to the improper use of the state flags. While investigating this bug, a different bug was discovered in the state recovery operation which resulted in a reclaim thread looping in the nfs4_reclaim_open_state() function. With this update, both operations have been fixed and work as expected.
BZ#680549
Previously, the UDP (User Datagram Protocol) transmit path ran under a socket lock due to the corking feature, which limited scalability due to having to transmit to the same socket in multiple threads. With this update, the transmit path has been made lockless when corking is not used, which greatly increases UDP transmit speed.
BZ#630060
On a system configured with an HP Smart Array controller, during the kdump process, the capturing kernel could have become unresponsive and the following error message logged:
NMI: IOCK error (debug interrupt?)
As a workaround, the system can be configured by blacklisting the hpsa module in a configuration file such as /etc/modules.d/blacklist.conf, and specifying the disk_timeout option so that saving the vmcore over the network is possible.
BZ#700430
Under certain circumstances, a command could be left unprocessed when using either the cciss or the hpsa driver. This was because the HP Smart Array controller considered all commands to be completed when, in fact, some commands were still left in the completion queue. This could cause the file system to become read-only or panic and the whole system to become unstable. With this update, an extra read operation has been added to both of the aforementioned drivers, fixing this issue.
BZ#617137
On platforms using an Intel 7500 or an Intel 5500 chipset (or their derivatives), occasionally, a VT-d specification defined error occurred in the kdump kernel (the second kernel). As a result of the VT-d error, on some platforms, an SMI (System Management Interrupt) was issued and the system became unresponsive. With this update, a VT-d error is properly handled so that an SMI is no longer issued, and the system no longer hangs.
BZ#664364
Invocating an EFI (Extensible Firmware Interface) call caused a restart or a failure to boot to occur on a system with more than 512GB of memory because the EFI page tables did not map the whole kernel space. EFI page tables used only one PGD (Page Global Directory) entry to map the kernel space; thus, virtual addresses higher than PAGE_OFFSET + 512GB could not be accessed. With this update, EFI page tables map the whole kernel space.
BZ#655231
A previously introduced patch that prevented kbuild to attempt to sign an out-of-the-tree module only fixed this issue for cases when a full kernel tree was used for compiling. Using the kernel-devel package for compilation remained broken. This update allows out-of-the-tree modules to compile using the kernel-devel package only.
BZ#703504
Prior to this update, external modules could be built using the "-Werr" option, which resulted in a failure to build any major third party module. This update, disables the "-Werr" option for external modules, fixing the issue.
Enhancements
BZ#628676
The zfcpdump tool was not able to mount ext4 file systems. Because ext4 is the default file system on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, with this update, ext4 file system support was added for the zfcpdump tool.
BZ#629205
The zfcpdump tool was not able to mount ext2 file systems. With this update, ext2 file system support was added for the zfcpdump tool.
BZ#636922
The ALSA HDA audio driver has been updated to improve support for new chipsets and HDA audio codecs.
BZ#693050
The perf subsystem's trace command has been replaced with the script command. Users should now use the script command.
BZ#633571
This update provides VLAN null tagging support (VLAN ID 0 can be used in tags).
BZ#591796, BZ#591797, BZ#624615, BZ#637237
USB 3.0 support has been changed from Technology Preview to full support, and supports Power Management as well as other chips other than NEC.
Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues, fix these bugs, and add these enhancement. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Important

This update has already been released as the security errata RHSA-2011:0836
Updated kernel packages that resolve several security issues and fix various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links after each description below.
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Security Fixes
* An integer underflow flaw, leading to a buffer overflow, was found in the Linux kernel's Datagram Congestion Control Protocol (DCCP) implementation. This could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1770, Important)
* Missing sanity checks were found in setup_arg_pages() in the Linux kernel. When making the size of the argument and environment area on the stack very large, it could trigger a BUG_ON(), resulting in a local denial of service. (CVE-2010-3858, Moderate)
* A missing validation check was found in the bcm_release() and raw_release() functions in the Linux kernel's Controller Area Network (CAN) implementation. This could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1598, CVE-2011-1748, Moderate)
* The fix for Red Hat Bugzilla bug 656461, as provided in RHSA-2011:0542, introduced a regression in the cifs_close() function in the Linux kernel's Common Internet File System (CIFS) implementation. A local, unprivileged user with write access to a CIFS file system could use this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1771, Moderate)
Red Hat would like to thank Dan Rosenberg for reporting CVE-2011-1770; Brad Spengler for reporting CVE-2010-3858; and Oliver Hartkopp for reporting CVE-2011-1748.
Bug Fixes
BZ#704000
This update includes two fixes for the bna driver, specifically:
  • A memory leak was caused by an unintentional assignment of the NULL value to the RX path destroy callback function pointer after a correct initialization.
  • During a kernel crash, the bna driver control path state machine and firmware did not receive a notification of the crash, and, as a result, were not shut down cleanly.
BZ#704002
This update adds a missing patch to the ixgbe driver to use the kernel's generic routine to set and obtain the DCB (Data Center Bridging) priority. Without this fix, applications could not properly query the DCB priority.
BZ#704009
Prior to this update, the interrupt service routine was performing unnecessary MMIO operation during performance testing on IBM POWER7 machines. With this update, the logic of the routine has been modified so that there are fewer MMIO operations in the performance path of the code. Additionally, as a result of the aforementioned change, an existing condition was exposed where the IPR driver (the controller device driver) could return an unexpected HRRQ (Host Receive Request) interrupt. The original code flagged the interrupt as unexpected and then reset the adapter. After further analysis, it was confirmed that this condition could occasionally occur and the interrupt can be safely ignored. Additional code provided by this update detects this condition, clears the interrupt, and allows the driver to continue without resetting the adapter.
BZ#704011
After receiving an ABTS response, the FCoE (Fibre Channel over Ethernet) DDP error status was cleared. As a result, the FCoE DDP context invalidation was incorrectly bypassed and caused memory corruption. With this update, the underlying source code has been modified to address this issue, and memory corruption no longer occurs.
BZ#704014
The Brocade BFA FC/FCoE driver was previously selectively marked as a Technology Preview based on the type of the adapter. With this update, the Brocade BFA FC/FCoE driver is always marked as a Technology Preview.
BZ#704280
This update standardizes the printed format of UUIDs (Universally Unique Identifier)/GUIDs (Globally Unique Identifier) by using an additional extension to the %p format specifier (which is used to show the memory address value of a pointer).
BZ#704282
The Brocade BFA FC SCSI driver (bfa driver) has been upgraded to version 2.3.2.4. Additionally, this update provides the following two fixes:
  • A firmware download memory leak was caused by the release_firmware() function not being called after the request_firmware() function. Similarly, the firmware download interface has been fixed and now works as expected.
  • During a kernel crash, the bfa I/O control state machine and firmware did not receive a notification of the crash, and, as a result, were not shut down cleanly.
Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Important

This update has already been released as the security errata RHSA-2011:0928
Updated kernel packages that resolve several security issues and fix various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links after each description below.
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Security Fixes
* It was found that the receive hook in the ipip_init() function in the ipip module, and in the ipgre_init() function in the ip_gre module, could be called before network namespaces setup is complete. If packets were received at the time the ipip or ip_gre module was still being loaded into the kernel, it could cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1767, CVE-2011-1768, Moderate)
* It was found that an mmap() call with the MAP_PRIVATE flag on /dev/zero would create transparent hugepages and trigger a certain robustness check. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2479, Moderate)
Bug Fixes
BZ#712413
Deleting the lost+found directory on a file system with inodes of size greater than 128 bytes and reusing inode 11 for a different file caused the extended attributes for inode 11 (which were set before a umount operation) to not be saved after a file system remount. As a result, the extended attributes were lost after the remount. With this update, inodes store their extended attributes under all circumstances.
BZ#711540
Disk read operations on a memory constrained system could cause allocations to stall. As a result, the system performance would drop considerably. With this update, latencies seen in page reclaim operations have been reduced and their efficiency improved; thus, fixing this issue.
BZ#711528
Multiple GFS2 nodes attempted to unlink, rename, or manipulate files at the same time, causing various forms of file system corruption, panics, and withdraws. This update adds multiple checks for dinode's i_nlink value to assure inode operations such as link, unlink, or rename no longer cause the aforementioned problems.
BZ#711535
Migration of a Windows XP virtual guest during the early stage of a boot caused the virtual guest OS to fail to boot correctly. With this update, the underlying source code has been modified to address this issue, and the virtual guest OS no longer fails to boot.
BZ#713135
When using certain SELinux policies, such as the MLS policy, it was not possible to properly mount the cgroupfs file system due to the way security checks were applied to the new cgroupfs inodes during the mount operation. With this update, the security checks applied during the mount operation have been changed so that they always succeed, and the cgroupfs file system can now be successfully mounted and used with the MLS SELinux policy. This issue did not affect systems which used the default targeted policy.
BZ#711546
Prior to this update, Red Hat Enterprise Linux Xen (up to version 5.6) did not hide 1 GB pages and RDTSCP (enumeration features of CPUID), causing guest soft lock ups on AMD hosts when the guest's memory was greater than 8 GB. With this update, a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 HVM (Hardware Virtual Machine) guest is able to run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux Xen 5.6 and lower.
BZ#714190
A kernel panic in the mpt2sas driver could occur on an IBM system using a drive with SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) issues. This was because the driver was sending an SEP request while the kernel was in the interrupt context, causing the driver to enter the sleep state. With this update, a fake event is not executed from the interrupt context, assuring the SEP request is properly issued.
BZ#713494
When VLANs stacked on top of multiqueue devices passed through these devices, the queue_mapping value was not properly decremented because the VLAN devices called the physical devices via the ndo_select_queue method. This update removes the multiqueue functionality, resolving this issue.
BZ#713492
Prior to this update, code was missing from the netif_set_real_num_tx_queues() function which prevented an increment of the real number of TX queues (the real_num_tx_queues value). This update adds the missing code; thus, resolving this issue.
BZ#711524
Prior to this update, interrupts were enabled before the dispatch log for the boot CPU was set up, causing kernel panic if a timer interrupt occurred before the log was set up. This update adds a check to the scan_dispatch_log function to ensure the dispatch log has been allocated.
BZ#712414
Prior to this update, in the __cache_alloc() function, the ac variable could be changed after cache_alloc_refill() and the following kmemleak_erase() function could receive an incorrect pointer, causing kernel panic. With this update, the ac variable is updated after the cache_alloc_refill() unconditionally.
BZ#711520
Due to an uninitialized variable (specifically, the isr_ack variable), a virtual guest could become unresponsive when migrated while being rebooted. With this update, the said variable is properly initialized, and virtual guests no longer hang in the aforementioned scenario.
BZ#713458
A previously introduced update intended to prevent IOMMU (I/O Memory Management Unit) domain exhaustion introduced two regressions. The first regression was a race where a domain pointer could be freed while a lazy flush algorithm still had a reference to it, eventually causing kernel panic. The second regression was an erroneous reference removal for identity mapped and VM IOMMU domains, causing I/O errors. Both of these regressions could only be triggered on Intel based platforms, supporting VT-d, booted with the intel_iommu=on boot option. With this update, the underlying source code of the intel-iommu driver has been modified to resolve both of these problems. A forced flush is now used to avoid the lazy use after free issue, and extra checks have been added to avoid the erroneous reference removal.
BZ#713831
Previously, auditing system calls used a simple check to determine whether a return value was positive or negative, which also determined the success of the system call. With an exception of few, this worked on most platforms and with most system calls. For example, the 32 bit mmap system call on the AMD64 architecture could return a pointer which appeared to be of value negative even though pointers are normally of unsigned values. This resulted in the success field being incorrect. This patch fixes the success field for all system calls on all architectures.
BZ#709381
A previously released patch for BZ#625487 introduced a kABI (Kernel Application Binary Interface) workaround that extended struct sock (the network layer representation of sockets) by putting the extension structure in the memory right after the original structure. As a result, the prot->obj_size pointer had to be adjusted in the proto_register function. Prior to this update, the adjustment was done only if the alloc_slab parameter of the proto_register function was not 0. When the alloc_slab parameter was 0, drivers performed allocations themselves using sk_alloc and as the allocated memory was lower than needed, a memory corruption could occur. With this update, the underlying source code has been modified to address this issue, and a memory corruption no longer occurs.
BZ#682989
Prior to this update, the /proc/diskstats file showed erroneous values. This occurred when the kernel merged two I/O operations for adjacent sectors which were located on different disk partitions. Two merge requests were submitted for the adjacent sectors, the first request for the second partition and the second request for the first partition, which was then merged to the first request. The first submission of the merge request incremented the in_flight value for the second partition. However, at the completion of the merge request, the in_flight value of a different partition (the first one) was decremented. This resulted in the erroneous values displayed in the /proc/diskstats file. With this update, the merging of two I/O operations which are located on different disk partitions has been fixed and works as expected.
Enhancements
BZ#711550
This updates introduces a kernel module option that allows the disabling of the Flow Director.
BZ#711548
This update adds XTS (XEX-based Tweaked CodeBook) AES256 self-tests to meet the FIPS-140 requirements.
BZ#711545
This update reduces the overhead of probes provided by kprobe (a dynamic instrumentation system), and enhances the performance of SystemTap.
Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues and add the enhancement. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Important

This update has already been released as the security errata RHSA-2011:1189
Updated kernel packages that fix several security issues, various bugs, and add two enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links after each description below.
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Security Fixes
* Using PCI passthrough without interrupt remapping support allowed KVM guests to generate MSI interrupts and thus potentially inject traps. A privileged guest user could use this flaw to crash the host or possibly escalate their privileges on the host. The fix for this issue can prevent PCI passthrough working and guests starting. Refer to Red Hat Bugzilla bug 715555 for details. (CVE-2011-1898, Important)
* Flaw in the client-side NLM implementation could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2491, Important)
* Integer underflow in the Bluetooth implementation could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges by sending a specially-crafted request to a target system via Bluetooth. (CVE-2011-2497, Important)
* Buffer overflows in the netlink-based wireless configuration interface implementation could allow a local user, who has the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability, to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges on systems that have an active wireless interface. (CVE-2011-2517, Important)
* Flaw in the way the maximum file offset was handled for ext4 file systems could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2695, Important)
* Flaw allowed napi_reuse_skb() to be called on VLAN packets. An attacker on the local network could use this flaw to send crafted packets to a target, possibly causing a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1576, Moderate)
* Integer signedness error in next_pidmap() could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-1593, Moderate)
* Race condition in the memory merging support (KSM) could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service. KSM is off by default, but on systems running VDSM, or on KVM hosts, it is likely turned on by the ksm/ksmtuned services. (CVE-2011-2183, Moderate)
* Flaw in inet_diag_bc_audit() could allow a local, unprivileged user to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2213, Moderate)
* Flaw in the way space was allocated in the Global File System 2 (GFS2) implementation. If the file system was almost full, and a local, unprivileged user made an fallocate() request, it could result in a denial of service. Setting quotas to prevent users from using all available disk space would prevent exploitation of this flaw. (CVE-2011-2689, Moderate)
* Local, unprivileged users could send signals via the sigqueueinfo system call, with si_code set to SI_TKILL and with spoofed process and user IDs, to other processes. This flaw does not allow existing permission checks to be bypassed; signals can only be sent if your privileges allow you to already do so. (CVE-2011-1182, Low)
* Heap overflow in the EFI GUID Partition Table (GPT) implementation could allow a local attacker to cause a denial of service by mounting a disk containing crafted partition tables. (CVE-2011-1776, Low)
* Structure padding in two structures in the Bluetooth implementation was not initialized properly before being copied to user-space, possibly allowing local, unprivileged users to leak kernel stack memory to user-space. (CVE-2011-2492, Low)
* /proc/[PID]/io is world-readable by default. Previously, these files could be read without any further restrictions. A local, unprivileged user could read these files, belonging to other, possibly privileged processes to gather confidential information, such as the length of a password used in a process. (CVE-2011-2495, Low)
Red Hat would like to thank Vasily Averin for reporting CVE-2011-2491; Dan Rosenberg for reporting CVE-2011-2497 and CVE-2011-2213; Ryan Sweat for reporting CVE-2011-1576; Robert Swiecki for reporting CVE-2011-1593; Andrea Righi for reporting CVE-2011-2183; Julien Tinnes of the Google Security Team for reporting CVE-2011-1182; Timo Warns for reporting CVE-2011-1776; Marek Kroemeke and Filip Palian for reporting CVE-2011-2492; and Vasiliy Kulikov of Openwall for reporting CVE-2011-2495.
Bug Fixes
BZ#719925
This update fixes a regression in which a client would use an UNCHECKED NFS CREATE call when an open system call was attempted with the O_EXCL|O_CREAT flag combination. An EXCLUSIVE NFS CREATE call should have been used instead to ensure that O_EXCL semantics were preserved. As a result, an application could be led to believe that it had created the file when it was in fact created by another application.
BZ#714982
In a GFS2 file system, when the responsibility for deallocation was passed from one node to another, the receiving node may not have had a fully up-to-date inode state. If the sending node has changed the important parts of the state in the mean time (block allocation/deallocation) then this resulted in triggering an assert during the deallocation on the receiving node. With this update, the inode state is refreshed correctly during deallocation on the receiving node, ensuring that deallocation proceeds normally.
BZ#720914
Prior to this update, the ehea driver caused a kernel oops during a memory hotplug if the ports were not up. With this update, the waitqueues are initialized during the port probe operation, instead of during the port open operation.
BZ#725329
Older versions of be2net cards firmware may not recognize certain commands and return illegal/unsupported errors, causing confusing error messages to appear in the logs. With this update, the driver handles these errors gracefully and does not log them.
BZ#726308
This patch fixes the inability of the be2net driver to work in a kdump environment. It clears an interrupt bit (in the card) that may be set while the driver is probed by the kdump kernel after a crash.
BZ#715397
The hpsa driver has been updated to provide a fix for hpsa driver kdump failures.
BZ#716539
Memory limit for x86_64 domU PV guests has been increased to 128 GB: CONFIG_XEN_MAX_DOMAIN_MEMORY=128.
BZ#726095
The patch that fixed BZ#556572 introduced a bug where the page lock was being released too soon, allowing the do_wp_page function to reuse the wrprotected page before PageKsm would be set in page->mapping. With this update, a new version of the original fix was introduced, thus fixing this issue.
BZ#717018
While running gfs2_grow, the file system became unresponsive. This was due to the log not getting flushed when a node dropped its rindex glock so that another node could grow the file system. If the log did not get flushed, GFS2 could corrupt the sd_log_le_rg list, ultimately causing a hang. With this update, a log flush is forced when the rindex glock is invalidated; gfs2_grow completes as expected and the file system remains accessible.
BZ#719928
After hot plugging one of the disks of a non-boot 2-disk RAID1 pair, the md driver would enter an infinite resync loop thinking there was a spare disk available, when, in fact, there was none. This update adds an additional check to detect the previously mentioned situation; thus, fixing this issue.
BZ#723807
This update fixes two bugs related to Rx checksum offloading. These bugs caused a data corruption transferred over r8169 NIC when Rx checksum offloading was enabled.
BZ#719910
The 128-bit multiply operation in the pvclock.h function was missing an output constraint for EDX which caused a register corruption to appear. As a result, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.8 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3.9 KVM guests with a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 KVM host kernel exhibited time inconsistencies. With this update, the underlying source code has been modified to address this issue, and time runs as expected on the aforementioned systems.
Enhancements
BZ#713827
This update adds parallel port printing support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
BZ#723820
Prior to this update, the be2net driver was using the BE3 chipset in legacy mode. This update enables this chipset to work in a native mode, making it possible to use all 4 ports on a 4-port integrated NIC.
Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues and add these enhancements. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Important

This update has already been released as the security errata RHSA-2011:1350.
Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues, various bugs, and add an enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links after each description below.
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Security Fixes
* Flaws in the AGPGART driver implementation when handling certain IOCTL commands could allow a local user to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2011-1745, CVE-2011-2022, Important)
* An integer overflow flaw in agp_allocate_memory() could allow a local user to cause a denial of service or escalate their privileges. (CVE-2011-1746, Important)
* A race condition flaw was found in the Linux kernel's eCryptfs implementation. A local attacker could use the mount.ecryptfs_private utility to mount (and then access) a directory they would otherwise not have access to. Note: To correct this issue, the RHSA-2011:1241 ecryptfs-utils update, which provides the user-space part of the fix, must also be installed. (CVE-2011-1833, Moderate)
* A denial of service flaw was found in the way the taskstats subsystem handled the registration of process exit handlers. A local, unprivileged user could register an unlimited amount of these handlers, leading to excessive CPU time and memory use. (CVE-2011-2484, Moderate)
* A flaw was found in the way mapping expansions were handled. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a wrapping condition, triggering a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2496, Moderate)
* A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Performance Events implementation. It could falsely lead the NMI (Non-Maskable Interrupt) Watchdog to detect a lockup and panic the system. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) using the perf tool. (CVE-2011-2521, Moderate)
* A flaw in skb_gro_header_slow() in the Linux kernel could lead to GRO (Generic Receive Offload) fields being left in an inconsistent state. An attacker on the local network could use this flaw to trigger a denial of service. GRO is enabled by default in all network drivers that support it. (CVE-2011-2723, Moderate)
* A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel's Performance Events implementation handled PERF_COUNT_SW_CPU_CLOCK counter overflow. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-2918, Moderate)
* A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's Trusted Platform Module (TPM) implementation. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to leak information to user-space. (CVE-2011-1160, Low)
* Flaws were found in the tpacket_rcv() and packet_recvmsg() functions in the Linux kernel. A local, unprivileged user could use these flaws to leak information to user-space. (CVE-2011-2898, Low)
Red Hat would like to thank Vasiliy Kulikov of Openwall for reporting CVE-2011-1745, CVE-2011-2022, CVE-2011-1746, and CVE-2011-2484; the Ubuntu Security Team for reporting CVE-2011-1833; Robert Swiecki for reporting CVE-2011-2496; Li Yu for reporting CVE-2011-2521; Brent Meshier for reporting CVE-2011-2723; and Peter Huewe for reporting CVE-2011-1160. The Ubuntu Security Team acknowledges Vasiliy Kulikov of Openwall and Dan Rosenberg as the original reporters of CVE-2011-1833.
Bug Fixes
BZ#727618
When an event caused the ibmvscsi driver to reset its CRQ, re-registering the CRQ returned H_CLOSED, indicating that the Virtual I/O Server was not ready to receive commands. As a consequence, the ibmvscsi driver offlined the adapter and did not recover. With this update, the interrupt is re-enabled after the reset so that when the Virtual I/O server is ready and sends a CRQ init, it is able to receive it and resume initialization of the VSCSI adapter.
BZ#728522
Suspending a system to RAM and consequently resuming it caused USB3.0 ports to not work properly. This was because a USB3.0 device configured for MSIX would, during the resume operation, incorrectly read its previous interrupt state. This would lead it to fall back to a legacy mode and appear unresponsive. With this update, the interrupt state is cached, allowing the driver to properly resume its previous state.
BZ#736065
Prior to this update, kdump failed to create a vmcore file after triggering a crash on POWER7 systems with Dynamic DMA Windows enabled. This update provides a number of fixes that address this issue.
BZ#713463
Prior to this update, loading the FS-Cache kernel module would cause the kernel to be tainted as a Technology Preview via the mark_tech_preview() function, which would cause kernel lock debugging to be disabled by the add_taint() function. However, the NFS and CIFS modules depend on the FS-Cache module so using either NFS or CIFS would cause the FS-Cache module to be loaded and the kernel tainted. With this update, FS-Cache only taints the kernel when a cache is brought online (for instance by starting the cachefilesd service) and, additionally, the add_taint() function has been modified so that it does not disable lock debugging for informational-only taints.
BZ#723551
A race between the FSFREEZE ioctl() command to freeze an ext4 file system and mmap I/O operations would result in a deadlock if these two operations ran simultaneously. This update provides a number of patches to address this issue, and a deadlock no longer occurs in the previously-described scenario.
BZ#710047
If a user configured 2 logical disks on a RAID volume, whose disks are larger than 2 TB, where the start of the second logical disk is after the 2 TB mark, and FastPath was enabled, FastPath reads to the second logical disk were read from the incorrect location on the disk. However, writes were not affected and always went to the correct disk location. With this update, the driver detects the LBA > 0xffffffff & cdb_len < 16 condition, then converts the CDB from the OS to a 16 byte CDB, before firing it as a FastPath I/O operation.
BZ#727838
A Windows Server 2008 32-bit guest installation failed on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 Snap2 KVM host when allocating more than one virtual CPU (vcpus > 1) during the installation. As soon the installation started after booting from ISO, a blue screen with the following error occurred:
A problem has been detected and windows has been shut down to prevent damage to your computer.
This was because a valid microcode update signature was not reported to the guest. This update fixes this issue by reporting a non-zero microcode update signature to the guest.
BZ#732379
Prior to this update, the following message appeared in kernel log files:
[bnx2x_extract_max_cfg:1079(eth11)]Illegal configuration detected for Max BW - using 100 instead
The above message appeared on bnx2x interfaces in the multi-function mode which were not used and had no link, thus, not indicating any actual problems with connectivity. With this update, the message has been removed and no longer appears in kernel log files.
BZ#726626
Previously, the inet6_sk_generic() function was using the obj_size variable to compute the address of its inner structure, causing memory corruption. With this update, the sk_alloc_size() is called every time there is a request for allocation, and memory corruption no longer occurs.
BZ#739477
Due to the partial support of IPv6 multicast snooping, IPv6 multicast packets may have been dropped. This update fixes IPv6 multicast snooping so that packets are no longer dropped.
Enhancement
BZ#732382
With this update, the JSM driver has been updated to support for enabling the Bell2 (with PLX chip) 2-port adapter on POWER7 systems. Additionally, EEH support has been added for to JSM driver.
Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues and add the enhancement. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

Important

This update has already been released as the security errata RHSA-2011:1465.
Updated kernel packages that fix multiple security issues and various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are available for each vulnerability from the CVE links after each description below.
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Security Fixes
* IPv6 fragment identification value generation could allow a remote attacker to disrupt a target system's networking, preventing legitimate users from accessing its services. (CVE-2011-2699, Important)
* A signedness issue was found in the Linux kernel's CIFS (Common Internet File System) implementation. A malicious CIFS server could send a specially-crafted response to a directory read request that would result in a denial of service or privilege escalation on a system that has a CIFS share mounted. (CVE-2011-3191, Important)
* A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel handled fragmented IPv6 UDP datagrams over the bridge with UDP Fragmentation Offload (UFO) functionality on. A remote attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-4326, Important)
* The way IPv4 and IPv6 protocol sequence numbers and fragment IDs were generated could allow a man-in-the-middle attacker to inject packets and possibly hijack connections. Protocol sequence numbers and fragment IDs are now more random. (CVE-2011-3188, Moderate)
* A buffer overflow flaw was found in the Linux kernel's FUSE (Filesystem in Userspace) implementation. A local user in the fuse group who has access to mount a FUSE file system could use this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3353, Moderate)
* A flaw was found in the b43 driver in the Linux kernel. If a system had an active wireless interface that uses the b43 driver, an attacker able to send a specially-crafted frame to that interface could cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3359, Moderate)
* A flaw was found in the way CIFS shares with DFS referrals at their root were handled. An attacker on the local network who is able to deploy a malicious CIFS server could create a CIFS network share that, when mounted, would cause the client system to crash. (CVE-2011-3363, Moderate)
* A flaw was found in the way the Linux kernel handled VLAN 0 frames with the priority tag set. When using certain network drivers, an attacker on the local network could use this flaw to cause a denial of service. (CVE-2011-3593, Moderate)
* A flaw in the way memory containing security-related data was handled in tpm_read() could allow a local, unprivileged user to read the results of a previously run TPM command. (CVE-2011-1162, Low)
* A heap overflow flaw was found in the Linux kernel's EFI GUID Partition Table (GPT) implementation. A local attacker could use this flaw to cause a denial of service by mounting a disk that contains specially-crafted partition tables. (CVE-2011-1577, Low)
* The I/O statistics from the taskstats subsystem could be read without any restrictions. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to gather confidential information, such as the length of a password used in a process. (CVE-2011-2494, Low)
* It was found that the perf tool, a part of the Linux kernel's Performance Events implementation, could load its configuration file from the current working directory. If a local user with access to the perf tool were tricked into running perf in a directory that contains a specially-crafted configuration file, it could cause perf to overwrite arbitrary files and directories accessible to that user. (CVE-2011-2905, Low)
Red Hat would like to thank Fernando Gont for reporting CVE-2011-2699; Darren Lavender for reporting CVE-2011-3191; Dan Kaminsky for reporting CVE-2011-3188; Yogesh Sharma for reporting CVE-2011-3363; Gideon Naim for reporting CVE-2011-3593; Peter Huewe for reporting CVE-2011-1162; Timo Warns for reporting CVE-2011-1577; and Vasiliy Kulikov of Openwall for reporting CVE-2011-2494.
Bug Fixes
BZ#734774
When a host was in recovery mode and a SCSI scan operation was initiated, the scan operation failed and provided no error output. This bug has been fixed and the SCSI layer now waits for recovery of the host to complete scan operations for devices.
BZ#737570
While executing a multi-threaded process by multiple CPUs, page-directory-pointer-table entry (PDPTE) registers were not fully flushed from the CPU cache when a Page Global Directory (PGD) entry was changed in x86 Physical Address Extension (PAE) mode. As a consequence, the process failed to respond for a long time before it successfully finished. With this update, the kernel has been modified to flush the Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB) for each CPU using a page table that has changed. Multi-threaded processes now finish without hanging.
BZ#740352
When a CPU is about to modify data protected by the RCU (Read Copy Update) mechanism, it has to wait for other CPUs in the system to pass a quiescent state. Previously, the guest mode was not considered a quiescent state. As a consequence, if a CPU was in the guest mode for a long time, another CPU had to wait a long time in order to modify RCU-protected data. With this update, the rcu_virt_note_context_switch() function, which marks the guest mode as a quiescent state, has been added to the kernel, thus resolving this issue.
BZ#741167
A workaround to the megaraid_sas driver was provided to address an issue but as a side effect of the workaround, megaraid_sas stopped to report certain enclosures, CD-ROM drives, and other devices. The underlying problem for the issue has been fixed as reported in BZ#741166. With this update, the original workaround has been reverted, and megaraid_sas now reports many different devices as before.
BZ#741166
Previously, some enclosure devices with a broken firmware reported incorrect values. As a consequence, kernel sometimes terminated unexpectedly. A patch has been provided to address this issue, and the kernel crashes no longer occur even if an enclosure device reports incorrect or duplicate data.
BZ#741704
During connection shut down or reconnection, the iSCSI software initiator module, iscsi_tcp, was setting callbacks to the NULL value and freeing connections while the network layer was still using the callbacks. As a consequence, kernel terminated unexpectedly. A patch has been provided to address this issue and the crashes no longer occur in the described scenario.
BZ#743510
When a SCTP (Stream Control Transmission Protocol) packet contained two COOKIE_ECHO chunks and nothing else, the SCTP state machine disabled output processing for the socket while processing the first COOKIE_ECHO chunk, then lost the association and forgot to re-enable output processing for the socket. As a consequence, any data which needed to be sent to a peer were blocked and the socket appeared to be unresponsive. With this update, a new SCTP command has been added to the kernel code, which sets the association explicitly; the command is used when processing the second COOKIE_ECHO chunk to restore the context for SCTP state machine, thus fixing this bug.
BZ#743807
Some system vendors desired the Wake-on-Lan capability to be accessible on more than the first on-board port of an Intel i350 network adapter. Due to a bug in the igb driver, this was not possible. This bug has been fixed and igb now honors the EEPROM setting for the second port.
BZ#745413
When a kernel NFS server was being stopped, kernel sometimes terminated unexpectedly. A bug has been fixed in the wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout() function and the crashes no longer occur in the described scenario.
BZ#745557
The ACPI (Advanced Control and Power Interface) core places all events to the kacpi_notify queue including PCI hotplug events. When the acpiphp driver was loaded and a PCI card with a PCI-to-PCI bridge was removed from the system, the code path attempted to empty the kacpi_notify queue which causes a deadlock, and the kacpi_notify thread became unresponsive. With this update, the call sequence has been fixed, and the bridge is now cleaned-up properly in the described scenario.
BZ#747868
On IBM System z, if a Linux instance with large amounts of anonymous memory runs into a memory shortage the first time, all pages on the active or inactive lists are considered referenced. This causes the memory management on IBM System z to do a full check over all page cache pages and start writeback for all of them. As a consequence, the system became temporarily unresponsive when the described situation occurred. With this update, only pages with active mappers are checked and the page scan now does not cause the hangs.
BZ#740230
When a NFS server returned more than two GETATTR bitmap words in response to the FATTR4_ACL attribute request, decoding operations of the nfs4_getfacl() function failed. A patch has been provided to address this issue and the ACLs are now returned in the described scenario.
BZ#744811
In error recovery, most SCSI error recovery stages send a TUR (Test Unit Ready) command for every bad command when a driver error handler reports success. When several bad commands pointed to a same device, the device was probed multiple times. When the device was in a state where the device did not respond to commands even after a recovery function returned success, the error handler had to wait for the commands to time out. This significantly impeded the recovery process. With this update, SCSI mid-layer error routines to send test commands have been fixed to respond once per device instead of once per bad command, thus reducing error recovery time considerably.
BZ#748808
A scenario for this bug involves two hosts, configured to use IPv4 network, and two guests, configured to use IPv6 network. When a guest on host A attempted to send a large UDP datagram to host B, host A terminated unexpectedly. With this update, the ipv6_select_ident() function has been fixed to accept the in6_addr parameter and to use the destination address in IPv6 header when no route is attached, and the crashes no longer occur in the described scenario.
Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.
Updated kernel packages that fix three bugs and add two enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Update Support.
[Updated 12 June 2012] This advisory has been updated with the correct description for bug 811298. The packages included in this revised update have not been changed in any way from the packages included in the original advisory.
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Bug Fixes
BZ#807425
An unwanted interrupt was generated when a PCI driver switched the interrupt mechanism from the Message Signaled Interrupt (MSI or MSI-X) to the INTx emulation while shutting down a device. Due to this, an interrupt handler was called repeatedly, and the system became unresponsive. On certain systems, the interrupt handler of Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) was called while shutting down a device on the way to reboot the system after running kdump. In such a case, soft lockups were performed repeatedly and the shutdown process never finished. With this update, the user can choose not to use MSI or MSI-X for the PCI Express Native Hotplug driver. The switching between the interrupt mechanisms is no longer performed so that the unwanted interrupt is not generated.
BZ#810453
Previously, the eth_type_trans() function was called with the VLAN device type set. If a VLAN device contained a MAC address different from the original device, an incorrect packet type was assigned to the host. Consequently, if the VLAN devices were set up on a bonding interface in Adaptive Load Balancing (ALB) mode, the TCP connection could not be established. With this update, the eth_type_trans() function is called with the original device, ensuring that the connection is established as expected.
BZ#811298
Due to incorrect use of the list_for_each_entry_safe() macro, the enumeration of remote procedure calls (RPCs) priority wait queue tasks stored in the tk_wait.links list failed. As a consequence, the rpc_wake_up() and rpc_wake_up_status() functions failed to wake up all tasks. This caused the system to become unresponsive and could significantly decrease system performance. Now, the list_for_each_entry_safe() macro is no longer used in rpc_wake_up(), ensuring reasonable system performance.
Enhancements
BZ#801714
The qlge 10 Gigabit Ethernet driver for QLogic 81XX converged network adapter family has been updated to version 1.00.00.29, which provides a number of bug fixes over the previous version.
BZ#806905
The Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) specification requires a minimum communication timeout of five seconds. Previously, the kernel incorrectly used a timeout of 1 second. This could result in failures to communicate with Baseboard Management Controllers (BMC) under certain circumstances. With this update, the timeout has been increased to five seconds to prevent such problems.
All users of kernel are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.
Updated kernel packages that fix multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Update Support.
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Bug Fixes
BZ#789912
Socket callbacks use the svc_xprt_enqueue() function to add sockets to the sp_sockets list. In normal operation, a server thread will later take the socket off that list. Previously, on the nfsd daemon shutdown, still-running svc_xprt_enqueue() could re-add a socket to the sp_sockets list just before it was deleted. Consequently, the system could terminate unexpectedly due to memory corruption in the sunrpc module. With this update, the XPT_BUSY flag is set on every socket before shutdown and svc_xprt_enqueue() now checks this flag, thus preventing this bug.
BZ#795332
Due to a race condition, running the "ifenslave -d bond0 eth0" command to remove the slave interface from the bonding device could cause the system to crash when a networking packet was being received at the same time. With this update, the race condition has been fixed and the system no longer crashes under these circumstances.
BZ#795337
In rare cases, a BUG_ON() macro could be triggered, causing the nfsd daemon to fail. The BUG_ON() macro checked the xpt_pool field, which was not actually used for anything. This update removes both the BUG_ON() macro and the xpt_pool field, fixing the problem.
BZ#795817
An insufficiently well-designed calculation in the CPU accelerator in the previous version of the kernel packages caused an arithmetic overflow in the sched_clock() function when system uptime exceeded 208.5 days. This overflow led to a kernel panic on systems using the Time Stamp Counter (TSC) or Virtual Machine Interface (VMI) clock source. This update corrects the aforementioned calculation so that this arithmetic overflow and kernel panic can no longer occur under these circumstances.
BZ#796826
On a system that created and deleted lots of dynamic devices, the 31-bit Linux ifindex object failed to fit in the 16-bit macvtap minor range, resulting in unusable macvtap devices. The problem primarily occurred in a libvirt-controlled environment when many virtual machines were started or restarted, and caused libvirt to report the following message:
Error starting domain: cannot open macvtap tap device /dev/tap222364: No such device or address
With this update, the macvtap's minor device number allocation has been modified so that virtual machines can now be started and restarted as expected in the described scenario.
BZ#799942
The dm_mirror module can send discard requests. However, the dm_io interface did not support discard requests, and running an LVM mirror over a discard-enabled device led to a kernel panic. This update adds support for the discard requests to the dm_io interface, so that kernel panics no longer occur in the described scenario.
All users of kernel are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.
Updated kernel packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Extended Update Support.
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Bug Fixes
BZ#751995
Previously, the idle_balance() function dropped or retook the rq->lock parameter, leaving the previous task vulnerable to the set_tsk_need_resched() function. Now, the parameter is cleared in setup_thread_stack() after a return from balancing and no successfully descheduled or never scheduled task has it set, thus fixing this bug.
BZ#757670
A software bug related to Context Caching existed in the Intel IOMMU support module. On some newer Intel systems, the Context Cache mode has changed from previous hardware versions, potentially exposing a Context coherency race. The bug was exposed when performing a series of hot plug and unplug operations of a Virtual Function network device which was immediately configured into the network stack, i.e., successfully performed dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP). When the coherency race occurred, the assigned device would not work properly in the guest virtual machine. With this update, the Context coherency is corrected and the race and potentially resulting device assignment failure no longer occurs.
All users of kernel are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.
Updated kernel packages that fix various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The kernel packages contain the Linux kernel, the core of any Linux operating system.
Bug Fixes
BZ#710609
Xen guests cannot make use of all CPU features, and in some cases they are even risky to be advertised. One such feature is CONSTANT_TSC. This feature prevents the TSC (Time Stamp Counter) from being marked as unstable, which allows the sched_clock_stable option to be enabled. Having the sched_clock_stable option enabled is problematic for Xen PV guests because the sched_clock() function has been overridden with the xen_sched_clock() function, which is not synchronized between virtual CPUs. This update provides a patch, which sets all x86_power features to 0 as a preventive measure against other potentially dangerous assumptions the kernel could make based on the features, fixing this issue.
BZ#712191
Issues for which a host had older hypervisor code running on newer hardware, which exposed the new CPU features to the guests, were discovered. This was dangerous because newer guest kernels (such as Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6) may have attempted to use those features or assume certain machine behaviors that it would not be able to process because it was, in fact, a Xen guest. One such place was the intel_idle driver which attempts to use the MWAIT and MONITOR instructions. These instructions are invalid operations for a Xen PV guest. This update provides a patch, which masks the MWAIT instruction to avoid this issue.
Users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. The system must be rebooted for this update to take effect.

1.117. kexec-tools

The kexec fastboot mechanism allows booting a Linux kernel from the context of an already running kernel. The kexec-tools package provides the /sbin/kexec binary and ancillary utilities that form the user-space component of the kernel's kexec feature.

Bug Fixes

BZ#605411
The kdump crash recovery service allows users to specify a raw device (that is, a raw disk or partition) as a target location for core dumps. Previously, when a kernel crash occurred and a core dump was written to such a raw device, kdump was unable to retrieve it after a reboot. With this update, the corresponding init script has been updated to search the configured raw device for the presence of a core dump upon the service startup. Now, when the kdump service is started and a core dump is found on the raw device, the init script retrieves it and creates a proper vmcore file in a local file system.
BZ#607400
Due to various unrelated errors in the underlying source code, the kexec utility may not have worked properly on the SGI Altix UV architecture. This update applies a set of patches to address these issues, and kexec now works on this architecture as expected.
BZ#619682
Prior to this update, the kdump.conf(5) manual page did not provide a description of the blacklist directive. This update corrects this error, and the blacklist directive is now included in the OPTIONS section of the kdump.conf(5) manual page as expected.
BZ#626318
When running the firstboot application in a language other than English, certain messages regarding the configuration of the kdump crash recovery service were presented to a user in the original English version. This update corrects this error, and the Kdump section of the firstboot application no longer contains untranslated strings.
BZ#626606
Prior to this update, an attempt to run the mkdumprd utility on a system without the /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf file caused the utility to stop responding. With this update, this error no longer occurs, and mkdumprd now works as expected.
BZ#626746
Due to an error in the init script, the kdump service did not take into account the value of the path option in the /etc/kdump.conf configuration file, and always saved the vmcore file to the /var/crash/ directory. This update adapts the corresponding init script to ensure that kdump uses the directory specified in the configuration.
BZ#627118
In accordance with the current version of the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS), the makedumpfile utility is now installed in the /usr/sbin/ directory.
BZ#627834
Previously, configuring the kdump service to store core dumps over a network on a system that used channel bonding or bridging caused the mkdumprd utility to display the following error message on the service startup:
Netmask is missed!
With this update, the underlying source code has been adapted to address this issue, and makedumpfile no longer displays this message when channel bonding or bridging is in use.
BZ#628817
The kdump crash recovery service is unable to operate in Xen environment. With this update, an attempt to start kdump in such an environment fails with the Kdump is not supported on this kernel message.
BZ#628827
The commented section of the /etc/kdump.conf configuration file contains the following line:
#core_collector cp --sparse=always
However, uncommenting this line without including /bin/cp in the initial RAM disk (that is, by using the extra_bins directive) would cause the kdump crash recovery service to fail. This update corrects this error, and the above line is now followed by #extra_bins /bin/cp.
BZ#630305
Due to an error in the translation, when running the firstboot application in the Malayalam language (that is, the ml_IN language code), certain keyboard shortcuts on the Kdump screen did not work. This update corrects the Malayalam translation of the firstboot application, and all shortcuts can now be used as expected.
BZ#630309
When running the firstboot application in the Malayalam language (that is, the ml_IN language code), the first paragraph on the Kdump screen contained an incorrect string. This update adapts the Malayalam translation of the firstboot application, and the Kdump screen is now translated correctly.
BZ#642735
Prior to this update, an attempt to start the kdump service on a system with a large amount of memory (that is, 1TB and more) caused kdump to terminate unexpectedly with a segmentation fault. With this update, the underlying source code has been adapted to address this issue, and kdump no longer crashes
BZ#642855
Due to an error in DHCP NAK handling, previous versions of kdump may have failed to resolve an IP address when storing a core dump to a remote server. This update corrects this error, and kdump no longer fails.
BZ#645441
Prior to this update, the kdump crash recovery service failed to start on IBM System x3850 X5 machines. This update applies an upstream patch that extends the size of kcore ELF headers. Now, kdump can be started on such machines as expected.
BZ#652191
Previously, configuring the kdump service to store core dumps to a remote machine over the SSH protocol and changing the core collector to cp caused it to name core dump files vmcore.flat, even when the SCP (Secure Copy) protocol was used. This update corrects this error, and kdump now only uses the .flat file extension when the makedumpfile utility is used as the core collector.
BZ#652724
Previously, when a system did not have enough memory to use kdump, the Kdump screen of the firstboot application incorrectly displayed the Enable kdump? check box as selected, but did not allow a user to change it. This error has been fixed, and the Enable kdump? check box is no longer displayed when the kdump service cannot be configured.
BZ#654245
When the kdump crash recovery service was already enabled, an attempt to use the firstboot application to change its configuration may have failed with the following message:
Insufficient memory to configure kdump!
This update adapts the underlying source code to verify that kdump is not running before displaying this message.
BZ#669655
Previously, when the root partition was mounted as a read-only file system, the mkdumprd utility was unable to create a temporary directory and failed to build an initial RAM disk (that is, initrd). This update adapts mkdumprd to use the /boot/ directory in this case. As a result, mounting the root partition as a read-only file system no longer renders mkdumprd unable to create an initial RAM disk.
BZ#671013
Due to an error in the mkdumprd utility, updating a disk drive firmware could render the kdump crash recovery service unable to recognize the disk drive. This update adapts the mkdumprd utility to ignore disk drive firmware revisions, and kdump now works as expected.
BZ#674893
Due to known issues with the hpsa and cciss drivers, kdump is unable to save core dumps to certain HP Smart Array Controllers that use these drivers. This update ensures that the kdump service is disabled on such controllers.
BZ#676758
Prior to this update, an attempt to boot a system with the new syntax of the crashkernel kernel parameter (such as crashkernel=4G-:256M) caused the firstboot application to terminate unexpectedly during the configuration of kdump. This update applies a patch to address this issue, and firstboot no longer crashes.
BZ#679310
When using the Russian translation (that is, the ru_RU language code) of the firstboot application, the first paragraph on the Kdump screen incorrectly contained the string. This update corrects this error, and the Kdump section of the firstboot application is now translated correctly.
BZ#680741
Prior to this update, running the makedumpfile -V command caused the makedumpfile utility to terminate unexpectedly with a segmentation fault. This update applies an upstream patch that removes -V from the list of supported command line options, and running the above command no longer causes makedumpfile to crash.
BZ#683713
Due to a typing error in the underlying source code of the mkdumprd utility, configuring the kdump service to store core dumps to a raw device caused it to display a message similar to the following when a kernel crash occurred:
kill: cannot kill pid 887: No such process
This update corrects this error, and kdump no longer display the above error message upon a kernel crash.
BZ#683735
When configured to use a raw device as a target location for core dumps, the kdump service recovers the dump file at next startup. Previously, an attempt to use this configuration without the core_collector option specified in the configuration file caused kdump to fail to recover the core dump. With this update, the underlying source code has been adapted to use the makedumpfile utility by default, and kdump is now able to recover core dumps as expected.
BZ#688150
When the firstboot application is used to configure the kdump crash recovery service, a dialog box appears and prompts a user to reboot the system in order for the changes to take effect. Previously, closing this dialog box by clicking the Close button had the same effect as clicking Yes, and incorrectly initiated the system restart. This error no longer occurs, and clicking the Close button now only closes the dialog box as expected.
BZ#691632
Under certain circumstances, the kdump service may have failed to create a core dump with the following error:
readmem: Can't read the dump memory(/proc/vmcore). Cannot allocate memory
This update fixes this regression, and kdump no longer fails to store the core dump.
BZ#692264
Prior to this update, the mkdumprd utility was not allowed to create temporary files in the tmpfs file system, rendering the kdump service unable to start in a diskless environment. With this update, the underlying source code has been adapted to allow the use of the tmpfs file system, so that kdump is now able to start on diskless nodes as expected.
BZ#692449
Previously, running the makedumpfile utility with the dump level (that is, the -d option) set to 16 or 31 may have caused the utility to fail. This update applies a patch that addresses this issue, and makedumpfile now works as expected.
BZ#692685
With this update, the mkdumprd utility has been adapted to provide support for the --override-resettable option. This allows system administrators to start the kdump service on otherwise unsupported devices, such as HP Smart Array Controllers that use the hpsa or cciss driver.
BZ#693015
Prior to this update, the kdump crash recovery service was unable to find an LVM device identified by a universally unique identifier (UUID). Consequent to this, when a system crashed, kdump may have failed to write a core dump to such a device. This update fixes this error, and kdump now locates LVM devices according to their UUIDs as expected.

Enhancements

BZ#598064
After the installation of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6, the firstboot application now allows users to edit the content of the /etc/kdump.conf configuration file.
BZ#632709
Support for IBM System z has been added.
BZ#672109
Previously, when the makedumpfile utility was used to translate a core dump file to the kdump-compressed format, it removed the ELF note section. Since this section contains potentially important information, this update adapts makedumpfile preserve this section in the kdump-compressed core dump files.
All users of kexec-tools are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes these bugs and adds these enhancements.
An updated kexec-tools package that fixes two bugs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The kexec-tools package contains the /sbin/kexec binary and utilities that together form the user-space component of the kernel's kexec feature. The /sbin/kexec binary facilitates a new kernel to boot using the kernel's kexec feature either on a normal or a panic reboot. The kexec fastboot mechanism allows booting a Linux kernel from the context of an already running kernel.
Bug Fixes
BZ#719917
Previously, the mkdumprd utility failed to parse the /etc/mdadm.cof configuration file. As a consequence, mkdumprd failed to create an initial ramdisk for kdump crash recovery and the kdump service failed to start. With this update, mkdumprd has been modified so that it now parses the configuration file and builds initrd correctly. The kdump service now starts as expected.
BZ#726603
On the PowerPC 64 architecture, the kexec utiliity experienced a segmentation fault when the kdump service was started on a system containing more than 1 TB of RAM. As a result, it was not possible to capture a crash kernel on such a system. This has been fixed with this update so that kexec no longer crashes when kdump starts on a system with greater than 1 TB of physical memory, and kdump can now works as expected.
All users of kexec-tools are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes these bugs.

1.118. krb5

Updated krb5 packages that fix multiple security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
Kerberos is a network authentication system which allows clients and servers to authenticate to each other using symmetric encryption and a trusted third-party, the Key Distribution Center (KDC).

Security Fixes

CVE-2011-1527, CVE-2011-1528, CVE-2011-1529
Multiple NULL pointer dereference and assertion failure flaws were found in the MIT Kerberos KDC when it was configured to use an LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) or Berkeley Database (Berkeley DB) back end. A remote attacker could use these flaws to crash the KDC.
Red Hat would like to thank the MIT Kerberos project for reporting the CVE-2011-1527 issue. Upstream acknowledges Andrej Ota as the original reporter of CVE-2011-1527.
All krb5 users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct these issues. After installing the updated packages, the krb5kdc daemon will be restarted automatically.
Updated krb5 packages that fix multiple bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Kerberos is a network authentication system which allows clients and servers to authenticate to each other using symmetric encryption and a trusted third-party, the Key Distribution Center (KDC).
Kerberos has been upgraded to version 1.9, which provides a number of bug fixes over the previous version. (BZ#642417)
Bug Fixes
BZ#595841, BZ#595842
Previously, no IPv6 suport was available for kprop, kpropd, kadmin and kadmind. This update adds IPv6 support to these utilities.
BZ#627039
Previously, the krbPwdExpiration attribute in the principal's entry would often be ignored when the realm database was stored in a directory server. This update fixes this problem and this attribute is no longer ignored.
BZ#629022
Previously, kinit with smart card login did not authenticate to the KDC correctly if the certificate on the smart card did not contain a subjectAltName extension or multiple certificates were available and krb5.conf was configured to select according to the value of the keyUsage extension in the certificates. This update continues to look for certificates with the right extension and corrects the valuation.
BZ#630587
Previously, the init script for the kpropd was not Linux Standards Base (LSB) compliant. With this update, this init script is LSB compliant.
BZ#630968
Previously, the KDC log files were not rotated by default. This update corrects this problem. Now these log files are rotated correctly.
BZ#646499
Previously, logins failed if the user had a .k5login file which did not explicitly contain the user's principal name. With this update, this check can be disabled using the "k5login_authoritative" setting in krb5.conf.
BZ#679612
Previously, GSSAPI authentication from Windows clients using cross-realm authentication failed if the client's ticket included a Privilege Attribute Certificate (PAC) with a failed signature check. Failed signature checks are now ignored.
All krb5 users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.
Updated krb5 packages that fixes a bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
Kerberos is a network authentication system which allows clients and servers to authenticate to each other with the help of a trusted third party, a KDC (Key Distribution Center).
Bug Fix
BZ#714866
Certain versions of the KDC software (included for example in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 and 3) reject requests, which include KDC options the software does not recognize, and do not support the "canonicalize" option. When a client was configured to use one of these versions of the KDC software, the client failed to obtain credentials for authentication to other services. This interoperability regression was introduced in the update to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1. With this update, an upstream patch has been provided to fix this bug.
Users of krb5 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

1.119. krb5-appl

Updated krb5-appl packages that fix one security issue are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
The krb5-appl packages provide Kerberos-aware telnet, ftp, rcp, rsh, and rlogin clients and servers. While these have been replaced by tools such as OpenSSH in most environments, they remain in use in others.

Security Fix

CVE-2011-1526
It was found that gssftp, a Kerberos-aware FTP server, did not properly drop privileges. A remote FTP user could use this flaw to gain unauthorized read or write access to files that are owned by the root group.
Red Hat would like to thank the MIT Kerberos project for reporting this issue. Upstream acknowledges Tim Zingelman as the original reporter.
All krb5-appl users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain a backported patch to correct this issue.
Updated krb5-appl packages are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The krb5-appl package contains Kerberos-aware versions of telnet, ftp, rcp, rsh, and rlogin clients and servers. While these have been replaced by tools such as OpenSSH in most environments, they remain in use in others.
Bug Fix
BZ#632442
kshd, the Kerberos-aware version of rshd, unnecessarily failed if the name of the local user account being accessed was more than 16 characters long. This occurred despite the user name being accepted by klogind, the Kerberos-aware version of rlogind. In this update, kshd was modified to accept user names with the length of up to 32 characters as accepted by klogind.
Users are advised to upgrade to these updated krb5-appl packages, which resolve this issue.

1.120. ldapjdk

An updated ldapjdk package that fixes one bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Mozilla LDAP SDKs enable you to write applications which access, manage, and update the information stored in an LDAP directory.

Bug Fix

BZ#684028
When parsing an attribute definition from a directory server schema entry, the ldapjdk parser did not properly handle the ORDERING and SUBSTR matching rule specifications.
This bug was being encountered by:
1) RHDS customers using the 389-ds-console code;
-or-
2) Custom applications while using the
LDAPSchemaElement.getOptionalValues() or LDAPAttributeSchema.getValue() methods to get a string representation of an LDAP attribute that has multiple matching rule types present.
The offending method in ldapjdk was fixed so that new attributes with multiple matching rule types are created properly.
All users of ldapjdk are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes this bug.

1.121. libarchive

Updated libarchive packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having moderate security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) associated with each description below.
The libarchive programming library can create and read several different streaming archive formats, including GNU tar and cpio. It can also read ISO 9660 CD-ROM images.

Security Fixes

CVE-2011-1777, CVE-2011-1778
Two heap-based buffer overflow flaws were discovered in libarchive. If a user were tricked into expanding a specially-crafted ISO 9660 CD-ROM image or tar archive with an application using libarchive, it could cause the application to crash or, potentially, execute arbitrary code with the privileges of the user running the application.
All libarchive users should upgrade to these updated packages, which contain backported patches to correct these issues. All running applications using libarchive must be restarted for this update to take effect.

1.122. libcacard

New libcacard packages, and an updated spice-client package that fixes number of bugs and adds various enhancements, are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Simple Protocol for Independent Computing Environments (SPICE) is a remote display protocol designed for virtual environments which allows users to view a computing 'desktop' environment not only on the machine where it is running, but from anywhere on the Internet. The spice-client package contains the spicec program, which renders a virtual desktop using the SPICE protocol.
The new libcacard package contains Common Access Card (CAC) emulation library.
The spice-client package has been upgraded to upstream version 0.8.0, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#671383)

Bug Fixes

BZ#630825, BZ#626975
When a kernel panic occurred on a guest, spice-client blinked the LED lights for the Num lock and Caps Lock keys even when it did not have keyboard focus, making it virtually impossible to type in another window. This bug has been fixed and both keys now work as expected.
BZ#628573
The X Window Server occasionally used over 80% of CPU time while the client was in full-screen mode, which caused the user's desktop session to become very unresponsive. This bug has been fixed and the undesired overhead no longer occurs.
BZ#642149
When switching to full-screen mode using the Shift+F11 shortcut, spice-client did not work properly with certain window managers such as Compiz. This bug has been fixed and the full-screen mode now works as expected in modern window managers.
BZ#644292
When running the "spicec --controller" command without having set the SPICE_XPI_SOCKET environment variable, users could experience unexpected termination caused by a segmentation fault. This bug has been fixed and spicec now exits cleanly with an error message in this particular scenario.
BZ#653535
Using the Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager, when a guest connected to a virtual machine (VM) via spicec, the window received title that differed from the VM name. This bug has been fixed and the user window's title now matches the name of the VM.
BZ#655029
A watermark banner was visible during the whole session and it obstructed the user's view. This update disables the banner so that it no longer obstructs the view.
BZ#670238
When spice-client was set to use JPEG compression for images, the client sometimes terminated unexpectedly. This bug has been fixed and the spice-client now handles JPEG images properly.
BZ#670274
If the client failed verification because of a subject mismatch between the supplied host and the actual host, the error message given was too short to be useful. With this update, the error message is now sufficiently informative.
BZ#670276
The spicec program incorrectly parsed long arguments when an equal sign ("=") was used. As a result, an error message was given and the client did not start. This bug has been fixed and the client now behaves as expected.
BZ#675767
When a spice-client hotkey was set to Ctrl+Alt, users were unable to send, using Sticky-Alt, a Ctrl+Alt+key key sequence to a guest. That prevented various functionality such as switching focus to the console or setting keyboard shortcuts. This bug has been fixed and users can send the client a key sequence with Ctrl and Alt keys using Sticky-Alt even if a spice-client hotkey is set to Ctrl+Alt.
BZ#679467
Status changes of the Caps Lock and Num Lock key were not synchronized from the guest to the client. With this update a guest and a client always synchronize their status of the Caps Lock and Num Lock keys.
BZ#680763
Sometimes, spicec became stuck when exiting from full-screen mode if it received an asynchronous X Window system error. With this update, spicec now correctly calls the appropriate "_exit()" function in this rare circumstance so that spicec does not become stuck if this situation occurs.
Enhancements
BZ#644258
With an appropriate spice-server installed and a spice-agent running, users of spice-client can now copy-and-paste between the guest and the client.
BZ#545936
With this update, the following features have been added to the spice-client package to support a WAN (wide area network) environment: lossy compression for RGBA images on WAN connections, zlib compression (over GLZ) on WAN connections, an option to disable guest display effects such as animations, and an option to set guest color-depth.
BZ#675085
The spice-server and spice-client packages use common libraries in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1. This renders the following packages obsolete: cairo-spice version 1.8.7.2 and earlier, ffmpeg-spice version 0.4.9-1 and earlier, pixman-spice version 0.13.3-6 and earlier, and spice-common version 0.4.2-8 and earlier. These removed and obsoleted packages are now recorded in the spice-server.spec file.

Note

Note that if both spice-client and spice-server are installed on a system, upgrading one of them will also cause the other to be upgraded.
BZ#641829
The spice-client package now supports Common Access Cards (CACs), allowing single sign-on and other card services such as encryption.
BZ#641831
The spice-client package now supports Red Hat Enterprise Linux Single Sign-On (SSO) functionality with properly-configured smart card readers.
Users of spice-client should upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

1.123. libcgroup

Updated libcgroup packages that fix several bugs and add an enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The libcgroup packages provide tools and libraries to control and monitor control groups.
Bug Fixes
BZ#620368
With this update, the cgred and cgconfig services return proper exit codes when an error occurs.
BZ#622462
The cgconfig service was erroneously setting values of configured parameters in the reverse order as they were written in the /etc/cgconfig.conf file. With this update, the cgconfig service now correctly sets parameter values in the same order as they appear in the configuration file.
BZ#626127
The cgget command (which prints parameters of given cgroups) did not correctly display information about resource controllers due to a small buffer size. With this update, the buffer is no longer limited in size and the cgget command displays correct information.
BZ#628895
The cgcreate command changed the current working directory when creating a cgroup. The command restored the working directory to the previous location, however, some directory changes could have been refused (for example, SELinux; resulting in cryptic security denials). With this update, the cgcreate command no longer changes the current working directory and therefore no longer incurs any SELinux denials.
BZ#635984
After re-mounting a hierarchy of cgroups, the lssubsys command displayed incorrect information about the mounted hierarchies. This update fixes the faulty parsing of mounted hierarchies which are now correctly displayed.
BZ#650984
The cgred service failed to start if the cgconfig service was not running and returned the following error: "libcgroup initialization failed, 50001". With this update, a more human-readable error message is returned when the cgred service is started before the cgconfig service.
BZ#667957
The cgclassify command returned exit code 1 even if no errors occurred. With this update, exit code 0 is returned in the aforementioned case.
BZ#679698
The /etc/cgconfig.conf file could not contain parameter values with special characters such as commas. Therefore, it was not possible to set certain values for some parameters (for example, cpuset.cpus=0,2). With this update, the cgconfig.conf parser allows enclosing the parameter values inside double quotes which allow special characters to be defined inside them (for example, cpuset.cpus="0,2").
Enhancement
BZ#649195
The libcgroup package now includes the cgsnapshot tool which is used to write the current state of control groups to a configuration file.
Users are advised to upgrade to these updated libcgroup packages, which resolve these issues and add this enhancement.

1.124. libcmpiutil

An enhanced libcmpiutil package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The libcmpiutil library provides an API for performing common tasks with various Common Manageability Programming Interface (CMPI) providers.
Enhancement
BZ#633332
The libcmpiutil package has been upgraded to upstream version 8.5.4, which improves performance and is a prerequisite for the new interfaces provided by the libvirt-cim package update as the package depends on the libcmpiutil library.
Users of libcmpiutil are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which adds this enhancement.

1.125. libcxgb3

Updated libcxgb3 packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
libcxgb3 is a device-specific driver for use with the libibverbs InfiniBand/iWARP verbs library. This driver enables Chelsio Internet Wide Area RDMA Protocol (iWARP) capable ethernet devices.
This update upgrades libcxgb3 to upstream version 7.10, which provides multiple bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#675025)
All users of libcxgb3 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

1.126. libdfp

Updated libdfp packages that fix various bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The libdfp packages contain the Decimal Floating Point C Library, which is inter alia used for converting strings into decimal floating point numbers.
The libdfp packages have been upgraded to upstream version 1.0.6, which provides a number of bug fixes over the previous version. (BZ#642693)
Bug Fixes
BZ#625495
Previously, converting a string into a decimal floating point number greater than zero and less than one caused an error. During this conversion, the first decimal digit disappeared; consequently all following computations were done with wrong numbers. This bug has been fixed so that the conversion into the decimal floating point number now works as expected.
BZ#628670
Under some circumstances, libdfp encountered an issue while converting a value from a string into a decimal floating point number with the conversion command "strtod32". The "strtod64" and "strtod128" commands, which are also included in libdfp, did work correctly. The problem has been resolved so that the conversion now proceeds properly.
BZ#673222
Previously, there were several testsuite failures encountered when building the libdfp packages for the IBM S/390 architecture. These testsuite failures have been corrected with this update and thus no longer occur.
All users requiring libdfp should upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

1.127. libgcrypt

An updated libgcrypt package that fixes various bugs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The libgcrypt library provides general-purpose implementations of various cryptographic algorithms.
Bug Fixes
BZ#576549
Previously, the build time test did not support FIPS (Federal Information Processing Standard) mode and failed in this mode. This update modifies the test so that it passes successfully on machines set to use FIPS mode.
BZ#669084
In FIPS mode, libgcrypt used the /dev/random device as the source for the RNG (Random Number Generator) seed. This caused the RNG initialization in FIPS mode to take several minutes. With this update, libgcrypt uses the /dev/urandom device for the RNG seed and RNG initialization no longer causes any delays.
All users of libgcrypt are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves these issues.
An updated libgcrypt package that adds an enhancement is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The libgcrypt library provides general-purpose implementations of various cryptographic algorithms.
Enhancement
BZ#709059
With this update, the libgcrypt API for the DSA algorithm has been enhanced to allow for presetting the prime (P) and the subprime (Q) parameters when generating the base (G) parameter. This is necessary for the algorithm correctness validation according to the FIPS-186-3 standard.
All users of libgcrypt are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which adds this enhancement.
An updated libgcrypt package that introduces a feature enhancement is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The libgcrypt library provides general-purpose implementations of various cryptographic algorithms.
Enhancement
BZ#703490
In FIPS mode, libgcrypt can now use a configurable source of RNG (Random Number Generator) seed. On systems with sufficient amount of entropy gathered from the kernel entropy sources or systems with hardware RNGs, the system administrator can add the "/etc/gcrypt/rngseed" symbolic link pointing to the "/dev/random" device node or a hardware RNG device. This symbolic link will be then opened and read by the libgcrypt library to initialize its RNG.
All users of libgcrypt are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which adds this enhancement.

1.128. libgssglue

Updated libgssglue packages that fix two bugs are now available.
The libgssglue packages provide a library required by programs in the rpcbind package. This library exports a GSSAPI interface that calls GSSAPI routines in other libraries.
Bug Fixes
BZ#558941
Previously, the libgssglue library files were placed in the "/usr/lib/" or "/usr/lib64/" directory, depending on the architecture. As the library is required by rpcbind which is installed in "/sbin/", this update moves the libgssglue library files to "/lib/" or "/lib64/".
BZ#681660
Previously, it was not possible to install both the 32-bit and 64-bit -devel packages simultaneously. This update resolves this multi-arch conflict.
All libgssglue and rpcbind users should install these updated packages, which address these issues.

1.129. libguestfs

libguestfs is a library for accessing and modifying guest disk images.
Updated libguestfs packages that fix one security issue and several bugs, and add a number of enhancements, are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base scores, which give detailed severity ratings, are linked to from the security descriptions below.
Security Fix
libguestfs relied on the format auto-detection in QEMU rather than allowing the guest image file format to be specified. A privileged guest user could potentially use this flaw to read arbitrary files on the host that were accessible to the user on that host by running a program that utilized the libguestfs library. (CVE-2010-3851)
Libguestfs has been rebased to upstream version 1.7.17, which includes the following bug fixes and enhancement (BZ#613593):
BZ#600144
The guestfish mkmountpoint and umount-all commands are considered incompatible. Mount points created with the mkmountpoint command become invalid after the umount-all command is used. This is now documented in the guestfish man page. Customers should note that it is possible to safely unmount devices that were mounted with mkmountpoint by using the umount command.
BZ#612308
The -net and vlan=... options in the qemu package are deprecated. To avoid relying on these deprecated options, libguestfs now uses the -netdev option instead.
BZ#615223
The guestfish vfs-type command could not determine the type of a file system newly created by guestfish. This occurred because the vfs-type command tried to read the type from a cache file (blkid.c) that had not yet been updated. The cache file is now deleted between file system creation and attempting to read the file system type, resulting in updated file system information for vfs-type to read.
BZ#617440
If the $HOME variable was not set, guestfish did not expand a path containing ~ (tilde) into a path to the user's home directory. Guestfish now examines the current user's passwd file for the location of the user's home directory so that a path containing ~ can be expanded correctly.
Additionally, an off-by-one error was discovered in the same path-expansion algorithm. This error could potentially cause a crash. The off-by-one error has been corrected so that this crash is no longer possible.
BZ#627468
The virt-inspector and virt-v2v tools did not work for Windows guests if an additional package, libguestfs-winsupport, was not installed. The error message did not explicitly state that this missing package could be responsible for the error. An additional note has been added to make the error output more useful when attempting to use these tools with Windows guests.
BZ#627832
Some guestfish commands print integer results. In some cases, namely for file permissions, the natural radix for these results is octal. Instead, guestfish returned decimal integer results for commands such as umask. This has been corrected, and guestfish commands that return integers now return them in the natural radix for that number.
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