On 04/18/2011 09:02 AM, Leonard den Ottolander wrote: > Hello Jim, > > On Mon, 2011-04-18 at 07:40 -0400, Jim Perrin wrote: >> Have you tested these updates to see if you have experienced any >> issue? Documenting symptoms people should watch for so that they can >> make their own decisions is far better than simply recommending that >> you exclude the update entirely. > > A description of the symptoms can be found in the upstream bug report > for which a link can be found in the forum thread. Perhaps I should have > linked the upstream report and I agree I should have mentioned the > symptoms. > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=695603 > > "xrdb in the xorg-x11-server-utils-7.1-5.el5_6.1.x86_64 package passes > broken defines through sh to cpp causing sh to fail parsing the command > line, thus failing to preprocess the xresources file passed and not > loading anything." > > It was discussed in the thread about the glibc breakage that my wording > should be more careful and definitely less general, but as always, > people can always make their own decisions, but you cannot anticipate on > issues you aren't aware of. > >> Recommending that people exclude >> something that may or may not impact them simply on the basis of one >> thread in the forums probably isn't the best approach. > > If I read the upstream advisory > https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0433.html correctly this update > contains a fix for a single vulnerability for xrdb. No other binaries > are affected. All it does is replace a vulnerable but functional binary > with a non functional version causing the Xresources not to be loaded. > > Also the exclude option I suggest is version specific, which means you > do not run the risk of not receiving future updates of this package. It also seems this is fixed by this update: http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2011-0454.html
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