Issued:
2011-12-06
Updated:
2011-12-06

RHBA-2011:1658 - python-netaddr bug fix update

Synopsis

python-netaddr bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

An updated python-netaddr package that fixes a bug is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The python-netaddr package provides a network address representation and manipulation library for Python. The netaddr library allows Python applications to work with IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, subnetworks, non-aligned IP address ranges and sets, MAC addresses, Organizationally Unique Identifiers (OUI), Individual Address Blocks (IAB), and IEEE EUI-64 identifiers.

This updated python-netaddr package fixes the following bug:

  • Prior to this update, if an IPNetwork object was instantiated with bad data, the python-netaddr code tried to access an unbound local variable and the erroneous exception "UnboundLocalError" was raised. It should raise the AddrFormatError exception instead. Consequently a user of python-netaddr had to check for all exceptions instead of just "netaddr.core.AddrFormatError". With this update the code is corrected and functions as expected in the scenario described. (BZ#710373)

All users of python-netaddr are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes this bug.

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 Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • python-netaddr-0.7.5-4.el6.noarch.rpm
  • python-netaddr-0.7.5-4.el6.src.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information