Issued:
2014-10-13
Updated:
2014-10-13

RHBA-2014:1571 - mipv6-daemon bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

mipv6-daemon bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated mipv6-daemon packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The mipv6-daemon packages contain a mobile IPv6 service for clients, which allows them to relocate within an IPv6-enabled network yet remain reachable.

The mipv6-daemon packages have been upgraded to upstream version 1.0, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#804124)

This update also fixes the following bug:

  • Previously, the mip6d daemon wrote debugging log messages to the stderr output stream, especially during process termination. However, due to a bug in the code, mip6d wrote random data into the netlink socket instead of stderr. These netlink messages were rejected by the kernel and caused SELinux warnings about invalid netlink messages. This update fixes this bug and the described situation no longer occurs. (BZ#804124)

Users of mipv6-daemon are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

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/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
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

  • mipv6-daemon-debuginfo-1.0-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • mipv6-daemon-1.0-2.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • mipv6-daemon-1.0-2.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • mipv6-daemon-1.0-2.el6.i686.rpm
  • mipv6-daemon-debuginfo-1.0-2.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • mipv6-daemon-1.0-2.el6.src.rpm
  • mipv6-daemon-1.0-2.el6.s390x.rpm
  • mipv6-daemon-debuginfo-1.0-2.el6.i686.rpm
  • mipv6-daemon-debuginfo-1.0-2.el6.s390x.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information