HP Tru64 UNIX and TruCluster Server Version 5.1.B-4 Patch Summary and Release Notes (13156)

• Eliminates compiler warnings in mkdir.
• Corrects a problem in which performing a sort on a large database using numerous keys
fails during the consolidation phase of the temporary files.
• Fixes a typo in mkcdsl.
• Updates the NIS start-up script to correctly start NIS on the cluster alias.
• Fixes a problem with bcheckrc that occurs when it is run multiple times.
• Fixes a problem with non-U.S. USB keyboards used in non-U.S. locales in which the keyboards
are treated as U.S. keyboards by the operating system.
• Corrects a problem in which sh uses a high amount of CPU time.
• Eliminates compiler warnings in ln.
• Eliminates compiler warnings in ksh.
• Enhances the cron command to perform extensive logging.
• Fixes following problems in sh:
— A service denial problem that occurs when a quoted here doc script is executed.
— A problem with handling ELF files.
— A condition in which the shell variable $- does not hold the -C set option when it is
turned on.
— A condition that causes the printing of broken characters when the type built-in utility
of sh is invoked in the Japanese locale.
• Fixes a one-byte gap/hole in the maximum file size in the tar command before an extended
header record is used (8589934591 (octal 77777777777)).
• Fixes a problem in which nonsense characters are appended to the audit information output
of an execve event in brief mode.
• Installs DECthreads V3.20-033, which addresses the possibility of floating point errors in
threaded programs.
• Corrects a problem in which some networking applications, especially X.25 and X.29, stopped
working as expected because of interactions with security-related fixes and how the fstat()
function behaves on their sockets.
• Corrects a potential security vulnerability which may result in non-privileged users gaining
unauthorized access to files or privileged access on the system.
• Fixes an sh problem that occurs when executing command substitution.
• Fixes a fatal assertion error reported by pixie, hiprof, third spike, cord, uprofile and odump
object file tools for some executable files linked at optimization level 2 (-O2) or greater.
• Corrects a condition in which the system start-up script /sbin/rc2.d/S19security could cause
an unintended change in the system security configuration, which could occur when
/usr/bin/perl has been removed.
• Corrects a condition in which the mv command fails when operated on running binaries.
• Corrects a condition in which the mv command does not allow a file to be renamed even
though directory permissions allow it.
• Fixes a problem encountered with the Bourne shell when a file name with trailing slash (/)
is used as an argument to the command.
• Allows the mv command to parse the pathname correctly when a source directory ends in
trailing slash (/).
• Corrects the default UID displayed by the adduser command when UID_MAX exists in the
/etc/passwd file and helps prevent the duplication of UIDs.
• Corrects a potential security vulnerability in sendmail that could result in nonprivileged
users gaining unauthorized access to files or privileged access on the system. This potential
vulnerability may be in the form of a local or remote security domain risk.
• Corrects a condition that causes NIS clients to fail to connect to non-Tru64 NIS servers that
support only the V2 NIS protocol.
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