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Bug 631815

Summary:	null pointer dereference crashes tcsh
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	RHEL Program Management <pm-rhel>
Component:	tcsh	Assignee:	Vitezslav Crhonek <vcrhonek>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	BaseOS QE - Apps <qe-baseos-apps>
Severity:	urgent	Docs Contact:
Priority:	urgent
Version:	5.5	CC:	bmason, bnater, fnadge, jwest, ovasik, pm-eus, rvokal, tao, vcrhonek
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	ZStream
Target Release:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:		Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	Under certain circumstances, a null pointer may have been incorrectly dereferenced, causing the tcsh shell to terminate unexpectedly. With this update, the pointer is now checked properly and tcsh no longer crashes.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2010-11-03 19:19:11 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:	624450, 689382
Bug Blocks:

Description RHEL Program Management 2010-09-08 12:53:46 UTC

This bug has been copied from bug #624450 and has been proposed
to be backported to 5.5 z-stream (EUS).

Comment 4 Jaromir Hradilek 2010-09-13 11:15:47 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:
Under certain circumstances, a null pointer may have been incorrectly dereferenced, causing the tcsh shell to terminate unexpectedly. With this update, the pointer is now checked properly and tcsh no longer crashes.

Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2010-11-03 19:19:11 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-2010-0823.html