Re: [Dump-announce] QFA tape position patch in latest Red Hat Rawhide

[Stelian P. <st...@po...>]

Hi Kenneth and List,

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 11:24:40AM -0700, Kenneth Porter wrote:

> I just pulled down the latest SRPM from Rawhide to build and noticed it has 
> a patch for what I think might be a security-related bug, as I wasn't able 
> to see the bug matching the patch number in Red Hat's Bugzilla.
[...]

False alarm.

I have contacted the RedHat dump packager (Adam Tkac) which explained
to me that the bug is private because reported by a customer, and
that he fergot to send the patch upstream.

Quoting him:
"The patch fixes issue with multi volume backups. When you backup a
file which is splitted to two or more volumes and the file
starts on 2nd tape or later, then this file is not restored
correctly. With the patch file is restored correctly."

I will apply the patch in CVS ASAP, but I wanted to let all know
that there is no need to hurry to update, there are no security
implications here.

Thanks,

Stelian.
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Stelian Pop <st...@po...>