[ANNOUNCE] util-linux-ng 2.13.1-rc1

From: Karel Zak
Date: Tue Nov 13 2007 - 06:25:00 EST




The first util-linux-ng 2.13.1 release candidate is available at

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/

(Note, 2.13.1 is stable maintenance release.)

Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed.

Karel


Util-linux-ng 2.13.1 Release Notes
==================================

Fixed security issues:
---------------------

CVE-2007-5191 - mount(8) doesn't drop privileges properly when
calling helpers

Changelog:
---------

For more details see ChangeLog files at:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.13/


blockdev:
- add missing description about option --report in manpage [Li Zefan]
build-sys:
- fix localedir (unsupported by autoconf < 2.60) [Karel Zak]
- nls/locale handling in util-linux-ng general [Mike Frysinger]
- remove files that are no longer delivered from git [LaMont Jones]
cal:
- add description about option -V to manpage [Li Zefan]
chfn:
- add pam_end() call and cleanup PAM code [Karel Zak]
chsh:
- should use pam_end function to terminate the PAM transaction
[Yu Zhiguo, Karel Zak]
docs:
- add info about .bugfix releases and branches [Karel Zak]
- fix ChangeLog URL [Pascal Terjan]
- fix stable branche name in README.devel [Karel Zak]
- update AUTHORS file [Karel Zak]
fdisk:
- fix typo [Karel Zak]
flock:
- typo in man page [A. Costa]
hwclock:
- fix --rtc option [Matthias Koenig, Karel Zak]
ionice:
- add a note about permissions to ionice.1 [Karel Zak]
login:
- login segfaults on EOF (rh#298461) [Karel Zak]
losetup:
- fix errno usage [Karel Zak]
mkswap:
- possible to crash with SELinux relabeling support [KaiGai Kohei]
mount:
- -L|-U segfault when label or uuid doesn't exist [Karel Zak]
- chain of symlinks to fstab causes use of pointer after free
[Norbert Buchmuller]
- doesn't drop privileges properly when calling helpers [Ludwig Nussel]
- improve error message when helper program not present [LaMont Jones]
pg:
- fix segfault on search [Rajeev V. Pillai]
po:
- fix typo in de.po [Karel Zak]
- update de.po (from translationproject.org) [Michael Piefel]
- update fi.po (from translationproject.org) [Lauri Nurmi]
- update hu.po (from translationproject.org) [Gabor Kelemen]
- update nl.po (from translationproject.org) [Benno Schulenberg]
- update po files [Karel Zak]
- update sv.po (from translationproject.org) [Daniel Nylander]
rename:
- add description about option -V to manpage [Li Zefan]
- remove useless variable [Li Zefan]
script:
- dies on SIGWINCH [Karel Zak]
setarch:
- adding groff symlinks to setarch manual page [Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]
- fix compiler warning [LaMont Jones]
- generate groff links in a better way [Karel Zak]
tests:
- fix blkid cache usage [Karel Zak]

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Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx>
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