Bug 487656

Summary:	Read and write size of startup status report buffer is incorrect
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Ian Kent <ikent>
Component:	autofs	Assignee:	Ian Kent <ikent>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE <qe-baseos-auto>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	5.3	CC:	ikent, jmoyer, rlerch
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Previously, autofs reported an incorrect buffer size internally when passing the startup status from the autofs daemon to the parent process. Although no specific consequences of this inaccuracy are known, the buffer size is now reported correctly to avoid any consequences arising in the future.	Story Points:	---
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Clones:	527375 (view as bug list)		Environment:
Last Closed:	2009-09-02 11:59:42 UTC	Type:	---
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Bug Blocks:	244117, 527375

Description Ian Kent 2009-02-27 10:11:04 UTC

Description of problem:
An incorrect buffer size is used when communicating the startup
status internally.

This doesn't appear to result in an actual problem but the code
clearly used an incorrect size. It's worth fixing because we may
end up with seeing this a some future time and waste time trying
to work out what's causing it.

Comment 3 Ian Kent 2009-05-21 03:30:42 UTC

This issue has been fixed in the latest autofs package
autofs-5.0.1-0.rc2.125.

Comment 7 Ruediger Landmann 2009-08-31 04:48:54 UTC

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New Contents:
Previously, autofs reported an incorrect buffer size internally when passing the startup status from the autofs daemon to the parent process. Although no specific consequences of this inaccuracy are known, the buffer size is now reported correctly to avoid any consequences arising in the future.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2009-09-02 11:59:42 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-1397.html