RHBA-2017:1934 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

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

Description

firewalld is a firewall service daemon that provides a dynamic customizable firewall with a D-Bus interface.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.4 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Users of firewalld 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

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1374001 - masquerade rules are not always created the same
• BZ - 1381314 - ZONE being blanked in ifcfg on reboot
• BZ - 1395348 - Patching firewalld with RHEL7.3 shows error ifcfg_set_zone_of_interface on restart
• BZ - 1400478 - firewalld writes ifcfg backup files with wrong extension .old
• BZ - 1401978 - icmptypes list is incomplete which could affect ipv6 in icmp-block-inversion mode
• BZ - 1402932 - set-log-denied LOG rule is non-functional with the 'drop' zone
• BZ - 1409544 - rich rules unable to act upon icmp packets (accept/log/mark)
• BZ - 1411650 - [RFE] should include additional xml file for opening all the required ports used while configuring trust among IPA and AD
• BZ - 1414584 - Rebase to the new upstream and new release
• BZ - 1416325 - firewall-cmd --set-description command fails
• BZ - 1416817 - firewall-cmd very slow when loading large XML files
• BZ - 1419058 - Improve support for ipsets in firewalld
• BZ - 1420457 - firewall-cmd set-log-denied may fail with ALREADY_SET
• BZ - 1421222 - order of INPUT_ZONES_SOURCE rules is not deterministic
• BZ - 1423941 - ipsets cannot be overriden by local config
• BZ - 1434763 - Firewalld is unable to save rich rules that use icmp-type statements
• BZ - 1438127 - firewall-offline-cmd --zone=internal --remove-service-from-zone=
• BZ - 1446162 - Use new wait option for iptables restore commands if available
• BZ - 1449158 - Add missing oVirt related firewalld services downstream.
• BZ - 1449754 - /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.fedoraproject.FirewallD1.*.policy all active at the same time
• BZ - 1459921 - rich rules cannot apply ipv6-only ICMP types

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/7.4_Release_Notes/index.html