Bug 678493

Summary: RHEL4 SIGSEGV in xinetd when application's logfile hit size limit
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Reporter: Vojtech Vitek <vvitek>
Component: xinetdAssignee: Vojtech Vitek <vvitek>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: qe-baseos-daemons
Severity: high Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: 6.0CC: azelinka, hripps, jsafrane, ovasik, syeghiay, tao
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: Regression
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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When a log file of a xinetd-controlled service exceeded the size limit specified in its configuration file, xinetd terminated unexpectedly with a segmentation fault. With this update, a patch has been applied to address this issue, and the xinetd daemon no longer crashes.
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Clone Of: 438986 Environment:
Last Closed: 2011-05-19 14:32:03 UTC Type: ---
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Bug Depends On: 244063, 438986    
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Comment 1 Vojtech Vitek 2011-02-18 09:13:52 UTC
The patch provided in bug #244063 is still valid and applicable.

Comment 9 Jaromir Hradilek 2011-03-22 15:34:24 UTC
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When a log file of a xinetd-controlled service exceeded the size limit specified in its configuration file, xinetd terminated unexpectedly with a segmentation fault. With this update, a patch has been applied to address this issue, and the xinetd daemon no longer crashes.

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2011-05-19 14:32:03 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-2011-0784.html