[BlueOnyx:16041] Re: Patched bash for RH 4.9

[Ernie]

Thanks for that.

I have an old BlueQuartz machine that can no longer find working repos. One
year I will get the sites off it onto BlueQnyx, in the meantime have to make
do.

- Ernie.


> I expect Oracle has a boatload of legacy machines that they still need to
> support, so it appears they're still creating at least some updates for
> RHEL 4.9.
> 
> There's newly patched bash versions for 4.9 here:
> 
>  http://public-yum.oracle.com/repo/EnterpriseLinux/EL4/latest/i386/
> 
> There are now 3 successively new patched versions, the lastest being dated
> today:
> 
>    bash-3.0-27.0.3.el4.i386.rpm   26-Sep-2014 15:42  1.7 M
> 
> and source:
> 
>    bash-3.0-27.0.3.el4.src.rpm    26-Sep-2014 15:42  4.3 M
> 
> There's been some 'work arounds' found to the earlier patches, so it may
> take several more patch revisions before the holes are completely closed.
> For those really worried about this, it's worth checking your repositories
> often for a while until it all settles out.
> 
> There's also some later versions of other programs in the repository
> above, so it may be worth seeing if any of those are useful for legacy
> boxes.
> 
> For any who may have any RAQ 4 boxes (AMD K6-III CPUs which are i586), the
> compiled Oracle bash rpm *seems* to work ok.  However, the running bash
> reports i686 despite the repo saying .i386.  So use caution before blindly
> updating packages.
> 
> For those K-6 machines, it may be better to grab source packages and
> compile them for the i586 since there are a few machine instructions in
> the 686 that aren't present in the 586 architecture.  If the 586
> encounters instructions it dosen't know about, the application will crash
> with an 'illegal instruction' fault.
> 
> =^_^=  Tigerwolf
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