Issued:
2018-10-30
Updated:
2018-10-30

RHEA-2018:3336 - syslinux bug fix update

Synopsis

syslinux bug fix update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory None

Topic

An update for syslinux is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The syslinux packages provide a suite of boot loaders, currently supporting DOS FAT file systems, Linux ext2 and ext3 file systems (EXTLINUX), PXE network boots (PXELINUX), and ISO 9660 CD-ROMs (ISOLINUX). It also includes the MEMDISK utility, which loads legacy operating systems from these media.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Users of syslinux are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

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

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support7x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop7x86_64

Updated Packages

  • syslinux-4.05-15.el7.src.rpm
  • syslinux-debuginfo-4.05-15.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • syslinux-devel-4.05-15.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • syslinux-extlinux-4.05-15.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • syslinux-perl-4.05-15.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • syslinux-tftpboot-4.05-15.el7.noarch.rpm
  • syslinux-4.05-15.el7.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

Additional information