RHBA-2018:3109 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

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

Description

The cdrkit packages provide a collection of CD and DVD utilities, which consists of the following subpackages: wodim (application for creating audio and data CDs), genisoimage (pre-mastering program, for example for generation of an ISO9660 file-system binary image of a given directory), dirsplit (utility for splitting directories into chunks before burning), icedax (audio data sampling utility for CD-ROM drives), and libusal (C libraries that allow communication with SCSI devices).

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 cdrkit 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 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 Power, big endian 7 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 ARM 64 7 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z (Structure A) 7 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1058446 - wodim lacks a needed scsi module 'out of the box' to burn ISOs
• BZ - 1524845 - wodim --devices and other commands fail because of wrong kernel release check in libusal

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/7.6_Release_Notes/index.html