Recommended update for coreutils

SUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for coreutils
Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2012:0973-1
Rating: moderate
References: #752943 #754559 #757636 #763536
Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for VMware
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1
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    An update that has four recommended fixes can now be installed.

    Description:


    This collective update to coreutils resolves the following
    issues:

    * Use FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE in fallocate() to ensure the
    destination of a file copy grows only as much as has been
    copied (bnc#763536).
    * In some specific circumstances, the 'su' command
    could send spurious SIGCONT signals to all running
    processes (bnc#757636).
    * Fix a race condition in 'cp' that could make copies
    to NFS volumes fail (bnc#754559).
    * Speed up attribute determination by caching failures
    of calling SELinux functions (bnc#752943).

    Patch Instructions:

    To install this SUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update.
    Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for VMware:
      zypper in -t patch slessp1-coreutils-6508
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1:
      zypper in -t patch slessp1-coreutils-6508
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1:
      zypper in -t patch sledsp1-coreutils-6508

    To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".

    Package List:

    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for VMware (i586 x86_64):
    • coreutils-6.12-32.39.1
    • coreutils-lang-6.12-32.39.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64):
    • coreutils-6.12-32.39.1
    • coreutils-lang-6.12-32.39.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 (ia64):
    • coreutils-x86-6.12-32.39.1
    • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1 (i586 x86_64):
    • coreutils-6.12-32.39.1
    • coreutils-lang-6.12-32.39.1

    References:

  • https://bugzilla.novell.com/752943
  • https://bugzilla.novell.com/754559
  • https://bugzilla.novell.com/757636
  • https://bugzilla.novell.com/763536
  • http://download.suse.com/patch/finder/?keywords=ce8f555e926b392e82c2010b43ce35ed