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⁠Chapt er 7 . Updat ed Packages
Users of krb5 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add this
enhancement.
7.98. krb5-aut h-dialog
7.98.1. RHBA-2015:0812 — krb5-aut h-dialog bug fix updat e
Updated krb5-auth-dialog packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6.
Kerberos is a networked authentication system which allows clients and servers to authenticate to
each other with the help of a trusted third party, the Kerberos key distribution center. The krb5-authdialog packages contain a dialog that warns the user when their Kerberos credentials are about to
expire and allows them to renew them.
B u g Fix
B Z #84 8026
Previously, users could experience a disproportionate increase in memory utilization by
krb5-auth-dialog after being logged in on VMware virtual machines for longer periods of
time. To fix this bug, a patch has been applied. Now, the krb5-auth-dialog memory leak no
longer occurs in this situation.
Users of krb5-auth-dialog are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.
7.99. ksh
7.99.1. RHBA-2015:14 50 — ksh bug fix updat e
Updated ksh packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
KornShell (KSH) is a Unix shell developed by AT&T Bell Laboratories, which is backward-compatible
with the Bourne shell (sh) and includes many features of the C shell. The most recent version is KSH93. KornShell complies with the POSIX.2 standard (IEEE Std 1003.2-1992).
B u g Fixes
B Z #1116 072
Prior to this update, the result of a command substitution was lost if a file descriptor used
for the substitution was previously explicitly closed. With this update, ksh no longer reuses
file descriptors that were closed during the execution of a command substitution. Now,
command substitutions work as expected in the described situation.
B Z #11174 04
Previously, ksh in some cases terminated unexpectedly when re-setting a trap inside a
function. With this update, ksh no longer uses invalid data for trap pointers and does not
crash in this situation.
B Z #116 09 23
After the user changed into a directory that lacked execution permissions, ksh did not
recognize that the change did not happen and that the user was instead still operating in
the directory from which the user attempted to change. Also, the " pwd" utility incorrectly
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