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Fedora Core 5: 2006-258 moderate: util-linux segfault fixes

fedora
Calendar Grey April 18, 2006
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora Core 5 has rolled out a critical update for the util-linux package, addressing segmentation faults and mounting issues affecting system stability and performance
Updated package.

Summary

The util-linux package contains a large variety of low-level system

utilities that are necessary for a Linux system to function. Among

others, Util-linux contains the fdisk configuration tool and the login

program.

- sync with upstream 2.13-pre7 release

- fix #187014 - umount segfaults for normal user

- fix #184410 - RHEL3 and RHEL4 mount supports 'noacl', FC5 mount command does not

- fix #183446 - cal not UTF-8-aware

- fix #186915 - mount does not translate SELIinux context options though libselinux

- fix #185500 - need man page entry for -o context= mount option

- fix #152579 - missing info about /etc/mtab and /proc/mounts mismatch

- fix #183890 - missing info about possible ioctl() and fcntl() problems on NFS filesystem

492a78a5397eeeaaf793aed293e92094eea5f15a SRPMS/util-linux-2.13-0.20.1.src.rpm

ffaa4ae18f2eb52c931c6adcc849ea87b0cd1d69 ppc/util-linux-2.13-0.20.1.ppc.rpm

23595f6e9deab9cd47ff1bb074f2d020869aa9bb ppc/debug/util-linux-debuginfo-2.13-0.20.1.ppc.rpm

b8ee96d81922e9cb8551caa8e5ef95866d7daab8 x86_64/util-linux-2.13-0.20.1.x86_64.rpm

a4e6a86eff6944e24cfab7977d54b8f706103df0 x86_64/debug/util-linux-debuginfo-2.13-0.20.1.x86_64.rpm

84957379a96f1f609459d51417158d53dd9b96a4 i386/util-linux-2.13-0.20.1.i386.rpm

f831cbd55c1db6fcebae8d51c0ea4afdb87838e1 i386/debug/util-linux-debuginfo-2.13-0.20.1.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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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

Name: util-linux
Version: 2.13
Release: 0.20.1
Summary: A collection of basic system utilities.

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