Bug 638609 - openais should handle non null terminated chkpoint strings
Summary: openais should handle non null terminated chkpoint strings
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
Classification: Red Hat
Component: openais
Version: 5.5
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Steven Dake
QA Contact: Cluster QE
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Depends On: 625947
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2010-09-29 13:32 UTC by RHEL Program Management
Modified: 2016-04-26 16:27 UTC (History)
8 users (show)

Fixed In Version: openais-0.80.6-16.el5_5.10
Doc Type: Bug Fix
Doc Text:
When a checkpoint name was not terminated with the NULL character, the aisexec process may have terminated unexpectedly with a segmentation fault, causing a cluster outage. With this update, the underlying source code has been modified to resolve this issue, and such strings no longer cause aisexec to crash.
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Last Closed: 2010-12-15 08:18:59 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
revision 2159 to fix the problem (8.58 KB, patch)
2010-12-06 21:25 UTC, Steven Dake 		no flags Details | Diff
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2010:0983 0 normal SHIPPED_LIVE openais bug fix update 2010-12-15 08:18:55 UTC

Description RHEL Program Management 2010-09-29 13:32:10 UTC 
This bug has been copied from bug #625947 and has been proposed
to be backported to 5.5 z-stream (EUS).
Comment 3 Steven Dake 2010-12-06 21:25:44 UTC 
Created attachment 465069 [details]
revision 2159 to fix the problem
Comment 5 Jaromir Hradilek 2010-12-07 16:53:38 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:
When a checkpoint name was not terminated with the NULL character, the aisexec process may have terminated unexpectedly with a segmentation fault, causing a cluster outage. With this update, the underlying source code has been modified to resolve this issue, and such strings no longer cause aisexec to crash.
Comment 7 errata-xmlrpc 2010-12-15 08:18:59 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-2010-0983.html
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