SUSE-RU-2012:0973-1: moderate: Recommended update for coreutils

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   SUSE Recommended Update: Recommended update for coreutils
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Announcement ID:    SUSE-RU-2012:0973-1
Rating:             moderate
References:         #752943 #754559 #757636 #763536 
Affected Products:
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for VMware
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1
                    SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1
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   An update that has four recommended fixes can now be
   installed.

Description:


   This collective update to coreutils resolves the following
   issues:

   * Use FALLOC_FL_KEEP_SIZE in fallocate() to ensure the
   destination of a file copy grows only as much as has been
   copied (bnc#763536).
   * In some specific circumstances, the 'su' command
   could send spurious SIGCONT signals to all running
   processes (bnc#757636).
   * Fix a race condition in 'cp' that could make copies
   to NFS volumes fail (bnc#754559).
   * Speed up attribute determination by caching failures
   of calling SELinux functions (bnc#752943).


Patch Instructions:

   To install this SUSE Recommended Update use YaST online_update.
   Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for VMware:

      zypper in -t patch slessp1-coreutils-6508

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1:

      zypper in -t patch slessp1-coreutils-6508

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1:

      zypper in -t patch sledsp1-coreutils-6508

   To bring your system up-to-date, use "zypper patch".


Package List:

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 for VMware (i586 x86_64):

      coreutils-6.12-32.39.1
      coreutils-lang-6.12-32.39.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 (i586 ia64 ppc64 s390x x86_64):

      coreutils-6.12-32.39.1
      coreutils-lang-6.12-32.39.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP1 (ia64):

      coreutils-x86-6.12-32.39.1

   - SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 SP1 (i586 x86_64):

      coreutils-6.12-32.39.1
      coreutils-lang-6.12-32.39.1


References:

   https://bugzilla.novell.com/752943
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/754559
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/757636
   https://bugzilla.novell.com/763536
   http://download.novell.com/patch/finder/?keywords=ce8f555e926b392e82c2010b43ce35ed