RHBA-2009:1090 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated iputils package that fixes a bug is now available.

Description

The iputils package contains basic utilities for monitoring a network,
including ping.

This updated iputils package fixes the following bug:

• it is the rdisc utility which is called at boot time to populate the

network routing tables with default routes. This bug caused rdisc to fail
during initialization when more than one IP address was assigned to a
single interface. This has been solved so that when rdisc encounters two or
more IP addresses assigned to the same interface, it continues working as
expected. (BZ#470498)

All users of iputils are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
resolves this issue.

Solution

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

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 470498 - rdisc error message with two IP addresses on one dev

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)