Issued:
2012-02-20
Updated:
2012-02-20

RHBA-2011:1493 - mrtg bug fix update

Synopsis

mrtg bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

An updated mrtg package that fixes two bugs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The Multi Router Traffic Grapher (MRTG) is a tool to monitor the traffic load on network-links. MRTG generates HTML pages containing Portable Network Graphics (PNG) images, which provide a live, visual representation of this traffic.

This updated package fixes the following bugs:

  • Previously, changing the "kMG" keyword in the MRTG configuration could cause the labels on the y-axis to overlap the main area of the generated chart. With this update, an upstream patch has been applied to address this issue, and changing the "kMG" keyword in the configuration no longer leads to the incorrect rendering of the resulting charts. (BZ#436662)

  • Previously, the package incorrectly informed rpm/yum that it provides perl(SNMP_util), perl(SNMP_Session), perl(BER) and a few other capabilities. Because of that, rpm/yum preferred mrtg as a source for those capabilities over the real source (e.g. perl-SNMP_Session). This caused other packages that expect to receive perl-SNMP_Session to fail. This updated mrtg package does not state that it provides those capabilities and as a result rpm/yum will no longer incorrectly prefer it for those capabilities. (BZ#563619)

Users of mrtg should upgrade to this updated package, which resolves these issues.

Solution

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

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at This content is not included.https://access.redhat.com/kb/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

Updated Packages

  • mrtg-2.14.5-4.el5.s390x.rpm
  • mrtg-2.14.5-4.el5.ppc.rpm
  • mrtg-2.14.5-4.el5.ia64.rpm
  • mrtg-2.14.5-4.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • mrtg-2.14.5-4.el5.i386.rpm
  • mrtg-2.14.5-4.el5.src.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information