Issued:
2009-06-10
Updated:
2009-09-02

RHBA-2009:1090 - iputils bug fix update

Synopsis

iputils bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

An updated iputils package that fixes a bug is now available.

Description

The iputils package contains basic utilities for monitoring a network, including ping.

This updated iputils package fixes the following bug:

  • it is the rdisc utility which is called at boot time to populate the network routing tables with default routes. This bug caused rdisc to fail during initialization when more than one IP address was assigned to a single interface. This has been solved so that when rdisc encounters two or more IP addresses assigned to the same interface, it continues working as expected. (BZ#470498)

All users of iputils are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves this issue.

Solution

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

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • iputils-20020927-46.el5.i386.rpm
  • iputils-20020927-46.el5.s390x.rpm
  • iputils-20020927-46.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • iputils-20020927-46.el5.src.rpm
  • iputils-20020927-46.el5.ppc.rpm
  • iputils-20020927-46.el5.ia64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information