util-linux-2.13-0.59.0.1.AXS3

The util-linux package contains a large variety of low-level system utilities that are necessary for a Linux system to function. Among others, Util-linux contains the fdisk configuration tool and the login program.
Security issues fixed with this release:
CVE-2011-1675
mount in util-linux 2.19 and earlier attempts to append to the /etc/mtab.tmp file without first checking whether resource limits would interfere, which allows local users to trigger corruption of the /etc/mtab file via a process with a small RLIMIT_FSIZE value, a related issue to CVE-2011-1089.
CVE-2011-1677
mount in util-linux 2.19 and earlier does not remove the /etc/mtab~ lock file after a failed attempt to add a mount entry, which has unspecified impact and local attack vectors.
Fixed bugs:
• If the user logged into a telnet server, the login utility failed to properly update the utmp database if the utility was executed from the telnetd daemon. This has been fixed.
• Added the descriptions of many options to the blockdev(8) manual page, as well as some missisng information about the ext4 and XFS file systems.
• Previously, the build process of the util-linux package failed in the po directory with the following error message: @MKINSTALLDIRS@: No such file or directory. This has been fixed and the package now builds successfully.
• Removed the invalid -b option from the ipcs(1) and ipcrm(1) manual pages.
Enhancements:
• If DOS mode was enabled on a device, the fdisk utility sometimes reported error messages similar to:
   Partition 1 has different physical/logical beginnings (non-Linux?): phys=(0, 1, 1) logical=(0, 2, 7)
The DOS compatible mode can now be switched off (by specifying the -c option), thus fixing the problem.
• Added fsfreeze command which halts access to a file system on a disk.