Bug 766832

Summary:	POWER4 strncmp crashes reading past zero byte
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Miroslav Franc <mfranc>
Component:	glibc	Assignee:	Jeff Law <law>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	qe-baseos-tools-bugs
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	5.8	CC:	fweimer, mfranc, mnewsome, ohudlick, pmuller, rsa, willschm
Target Milestone:	rc
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	powerpc
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Same as RHEL 6.2 BZ 766832.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:	694386	Environment:
Last Closed:	2013-01-08 03:45:44 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:	694386
Bug Blocks:

Comment 2 will schmidt 2012-02-03 18:06:56 UTC

This is fixed upstream, as stated in the Depends-on bug at: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=694386#c6

> commit 4420675c9d361643d1179ad67e0bb35c8fbdd1ce
> Author: Andreas Schwab <schwab>
> Date:   Sun Apr 17 22:03:53 2011 -0400
> 
>     Fix POWER4/POWER7 optimized strncmp to not read past differing bytes

Comment 3 Jeff Law 2012-02-03 18:15:51 UTC

Will,

You are correct, this has been fixed upstream as well as in RHEL 6.  However, this bug is present in RHEL 5 and I've put it on the list of bugs to consider for the RHEL 5.9 release.

Comment 4 RHEL Program Management 2012-04-02 13:09:38 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion
in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.  Product Management has
requested further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for
potential inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux release for currently
deployed products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in
a release.

Comment 8 Jeff Law 2012-06-12 17:10:38 UTC

    Technical note added. If any revisions are required, please edit the "Technical Notes" field
    accordingly. All revisions will be proofread by the Engineering Content Services team.
    
    New Contents:
Same as RHEL 6.2 BZ 766832.

Comment 16 errata-xmlrpc 2013-01-08 03:45:44 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.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0022.html