HP Tru64 UNIX and TruCluster Server Version 5.1B-5 Patch Summary and Release Notes (March 2009)

• 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.
112 Tru64 UNIX Patches