Bug 1461115

Summary: gawk killed by SIGABRT
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Reporter: Oneata Mircea Teodor <toneata>
Component: gawkAssignee: David Kaspar // Dee'Kej <deekej>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Martin KlusoĊˆ <mkluson>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: urgent    
Version: 7.3CC: deekej, dkochuka, fkrska, jkejda, jreznik, kdudka, lmiksik, mkluson, pandrade, pbokoc
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: EasyFix, Patch, Reproducer, ZStream
Target Release: ---   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version: gawk-4.0.2-4.el7_3.1 Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
Prior to this update, a bug in the gawk utility could sometimes cause it to perform an out of bounds write, which resulted in it being killed by a SIGABRT signal. This bug is now fixed, and gawk is no longer being terminated unexpectedly.
Story Points: ---
Clone Of: 1441689 Environment:
Last Closed: 2017-06-28 17:10:00 UTC Type: ---
Regression: --- Mount Type: ---
Documentation: --- CRM:
Verified Versions: Category: ---
oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team: --- Target Upstream Version:
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On: 1441689    
Bug Blocks:    

Description Oneata Mircea Teodor 2017-06-13 14:19:12 UTC
This bug has been copied from bug #1441689 and has been proposed
to be backported to 7.3 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2017-06-28 17:10:00 UTC
Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2017:1618