Issued:
2012-06-20
Updated:
2012-06-20

RHBA-2012:0791 - yaboot bug fix update

Synopsis

yaboot bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated yaboot package that fixes two bugs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The yaboot package provides a boot loader for Open Firmware based PowerPC systems. It can be used to boot IBM eServer System p machines.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • Prior to this update, the /etc/yaboot.conf parser failed during install when the quoted string was too long. This update modifies the code to significantly extend the size of quoted strings. Now, the /etc/yaboot.conf file parses as expected. (BZ#711001)

  • Prior to this update, yaboot could only be build using the mock tool which creates a 32-bit PowerPC environment in chroot. This updated package supports building with rpmbuild. (BZ#750199)

All users of yaboot are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes these bugs.

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 https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64

Updated Packages

  • yaboot-1.3.14-39.el6.src.rpm
  • yaboot-1.3.14-39.el6.ppc.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information