RHBA-2012:0447 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

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

Description

The portreserve package helps services with well-known ports that lie in the
portmap range. It prevents portmap from occupying a real service's port by
occupying it itself, until the real service tells it to release the port,
generally in the init script.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Prior to this update, the init script for the portreserve daemon did not

always return the correct exit code. As a consequence, an incorrect error
message was displayed. With this update, the init script is modified to return
the correct exit codes, and also appropriate messages are now displayed.
(BZ#614924)

• The portreserve package requires the "chkconfig" command because it is run in

installation scriptlets. However, this was previously not reflected in the
package metadata, and error messages could be displayed during installation. To
prevent this issue, this update adds requirement tags for chkconfig. (BZ#712362)

All users of portreserve 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/kb/docs/DOC-11259/

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 712362 - portreserve should depend on chkconfig
• BZ - 718176 - Possible problems found by static analysis of code

CVEs

(none)

References

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