Issued:
2015-07-22
Updated:
2015-07-22

RHBA-2015:1336 - udisks bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

udisks bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated udisks packages that fix one bug and add two enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The udisks packages provide a daemon, D-Bus API, and command-line tools for managing disks and storage devices.

This update fixes the following bug:

  • Prior to this update, an external storage device could be unmounted forcefully when a device entered the DM_SUSPENDED=1 state for a moment while performing a set of changes during the cleanup procedure. To fix this bug, an exception for ignoring such a device in the cleanup procedure has been added to the UDisks daemon. As a result, DeviceMapper devices are no longer unmounted forcefully in the described situation. (BZ#1121742)

In addition, this update adds the following enhancements:

  • With this update, additional mount points and a list of allowed mount options can be specified by means of udev rules. Flexibility of the udev rules format enables the system administrator to write custom rules to enforce or limit specific mount options for a specific set of devices. For example, USB drives can be limited to be always mounted as read-only. (BZ#673102)

  • This update enables the user to configure the udisks tool to enforce the "noexec" global option on all unprivileged users mount points. On desktop systems, the "noexec" option can protect users from mistakenly running certain applications. (BZ#681875)

Users of udisks are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug and add these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Retired Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • udisks-devel-1.0.1-9.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • udisks-debuginfo-1.0.1-9.el6.ppc.rpm
  • udisks-debuginfo-1.0.1-9.el6.i686.rpm
  • udisks-1.0.1-9.el6.src.rpm
  • udisks-debuginfo-1.0.1-9.el6.s390x.rpm
  • udisks-devel-docs-1.0.1-9.el6.noarch.rpm
  • udisks-debuginfo-1.0.1-9.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • udisks-debuginfo-1.0.1-9.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • udisks-devel-1.0.1-9.el6.s390x.rpm
  • udisks-devel-1.0.1-9.el6.i686.rpm
  • udisks-1.0.1-9.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • udisks-devel-1.0.1-9.el6.ppc.rpm
  • udisks-devel-1.0.1-9.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • udisks-devel-1.0.1-9.el6.s390.rpm
  • udisks-1.0.1-9.el6.s390x.rpm
  • udisks-1.0.1-9.el6.i686.rpm
  • udisks-1.0.1-9.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • udisks-debuginfo-1.0.1-9.el6.s390.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

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References

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Additional information