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

Patch 27046.00
OSFLAT540
• Makes start-up scripts in /sbin/init.d world readable.
Patch 27047.00
OSFLDBBASE540
• Provides Version V69 of the ladebug debugger to cause it to properly return from
a fork call when CATCHFORKS is set.
Patch 27048.00
OSFLDBDOC540
• Provides Version V69 of the ladebug debugger to cause it to properly return from
a fork call when CATCHFORKS is set.
Patch 27049.00
OSFLEARN540
• Corrects a potential security vulnerability where, under certain circumstances,
system integrity may be compromised. This may be in the form of improper file
or privilege management.
Patch 27050.00
OSFLIBA540
• Updates the audit system to display additional information for the numa_syscalls
and msfs_syscall system calls.
• Fixes problems in which acl_set_file() fails and returns errno = 22 and does not fail
if a file does not exist.
• Corrects a problem in the arena memory allocator that stems from a clash between
libc and libnuma on handling errors from the numa_syscalls system call.
• Provides type checking in EvmVarGet wrapper functions.
• Enhances the AdvFS rmvol utility to allow multiple volumes to be removed with
one command.
• Prevents addvol from adding invalid disks into a domain.
• Fixes a problem in XTI, caused by a blocked mutex lock, in which any thread
attempting to send an abortive disconnect would hang.
• Installs DECthreads V3.20-029c to fix a problem with floating point data
inconsistencies in threaded applications.
• Provides the correct labels for mach events to the audit subsystem.
• Fixes various problems in the libc functions getdate(), strptime(), callrpc(),
strncasecmp() and fork().
3.4 Summary of Base Operating System Patches 175