HP Tru64 UNIX and TruCluster Server Version 5.1B-6 Patch Summary and Release Notes

• Fixes a situation in which awk does not process input files specified in the BEGIN section.
• Corrects a problem with the cdvd command that causes two minor problems with its output.
• Fixes a problem that occurs when linking kernel object files from an archive library. The
problem was the linker always adds four __exc_* symbol references to the final linked image.
• Corrects a problem that can cause binlogd to dump core when parsing its remote host
authorization file (/etc/binlog.auth) with greater than 513 characters.
• Removes the 250 variable limit for /usr/bin/env.
• Fixes a problem of race condition in rm command in which two threads can successfully
delete a file simultaneously.
• Makes it possible for the vi command to read a text file containing non-ASCII single-byte
characters (for example, accents) and to read single-byte locales correctly.
• Corrects a condition that causes the FTP daemon to dump core when the client sends an out
of order ADAT command.
• Causes EVM to check for matching braces within EVM configuration files.
• Fixes a buffer overflow problem in /usr/bin/write.
• Adds a CDSL from /var/adm/binlog.saved to
/var/cluster/members/{memb}/adm/binlog.saved.
• Corrects a problem when running Enhanced Security in which an emergency log in for the
root account on the console would fail in TruCluster configurations, sending the message
"Impossible to execute /sbin/sh."
• Removes the race security vulnerability in the find utility.
• Changes the sort command to give exit value 1 for all the error messages, in compliance
with existing specifications.
• Prevents the sort command from dumping core when more than 50 sort keys are used
• Provides the feedback facility for dd in long copies.
• Adds support to the evminfo command to check for syntax errors in the EVM authorization
file.
• Fixes a problem with the UFS file systems that occurs after using the extendfs command.
• Fixes two problems in the dynamic runtime loader that can cause an application to crash.
• Fixes a problem that causes a segmentation fault when dbx is analyzing a Fortran program.
• Fixes various problems regarding regular expressions in multibyte locales.
• Corrects a possible hang problem with complex regular expression.
• Corrects a potential security vulnerability that can result in unauthorized Privileged Access
or a Denial of Service (DoS). This may be in the form of local and remote security domain
risks.
• Fixes a possible data inconsistency that can occur when copying files across DMAPI-enabled
file set using the cp command.
• Addresses a problem with sh while using the ulimit built-in command in displaying hard
and soft resource setting values when -H (hard) and -S (soft) resource limits options are
specified.
• Corrects a problem in which logins in TruCluster environments using Enhanced Security
could hang on any member other than the one serving /var to CFS.
• Fixes a problem with SIA that caused the Internet Express LDAP Authentication module to
be unable to look up default group information for a user at login time.
• Causes the appropriate exit status to be returned when a disk is full.
• Lets awk accept input records of a length up to 5,119 bytes.
• Fixes problem with the vi internal command when used inside a macro to repeat the last
search for a pattern.
• Corrects the last command to correctly report logout times when several sessions are active.
• Adds support for the file command to recognize ELF and HP-UX file formats.
Summary of Base Operating System Patches 85