Fedora Core 5: 2006-436 High Severity Procps Security Update

The procps package contains a set of system utilities that provide

system information. Procps includes ps, free, skill, pkill, pgrep,

snice, tload, top, uptime, vmstat, w, watch and pdwx. The ps command

displays a snapshot of running processes. The top command provides

a repetitive update of the statuses of running processes. The free

command displays the amounts of free and used memory on your

system. The skill command sends a terminate command (or another

specified signal) to a specified set of processes. The snice

command is used to change the scheduling priority of specified

processes. The tload command prints a graph of the current system

load average to a specified tty. The uptime command displays the

current time, how long the system has been running, how many users

are logged on, and system load averages for the past one, five,

and fifteen minutes. The w command displays a list of the users

who are currently logged on and what they are running. The watch

program watches a running program. The vmstat command displays

virtual memory statistics about processes, memory, paging, block

I/O, traps, and CPU activity. The pwdx command reports the current

working directory of a process or processes.

- fix #186017 - top "Cpu0" line never updates on single processor machine

(bugfix added to the 'remcpu' patch)

- fix #168444 - memory usage conflicts with /proc/meminfo

- fix #174619 - top reports wrong values for CPU(s) in batch mode

- fix #185299 – cpu steal time support

84e017f956856a258016dfb80a506a51235ef89b SRPMS/procps-3.2.6-3.3.src.rpm

8f18d3b32ebe67580aa85801359ec71bf5e834ab ppc/procps-3.2.6-3.3.ppc.rpm

7b88b6c3d9ce622346bbbfbc09de7b4c7b8665d4 ppc/debug/procps-debuginfo-3.2.6-3.3.ppc.rpm

b58a3215e78110ababb90a0e5e64d7126f40dc19 x86_64/procps-3.2.6-3.3.x86_64.rpm

e1a5c6af3167c809de7b1469e660bddde2b63f7c x86_64/debug/procps-debuginfo-3.2.6-3.3.x86_64.rpm

e44aa5458c7368cd9597b83deec0fe05c9641c0b i386/procps-3.2.6-3.3.i386.rpm

e9889dddfa963fa005bf4beb6c0fcb1ab95c8390 i386/debug/procps-debuginfo-3.2.6-3.3.i386.rpm

This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update

package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing

Software with yum,' available at .

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