RHBA-2018:3254 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for man-pages-overrides is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The man-pages-overrides package provides a collection of manual (man) pages to complement other packages or update those contained therein.

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 man-pages-overrides 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 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 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 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• 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
• 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 - 1495572 - cifs-utils: the option seal need to be described in man document
• BZ - 1538499 - parameter type for ssthresh in manpage of ip-route should be NUMBER
• BZ - 1543420 - Incorrect example in tc-vlan man-page
• BZ - 1560191 - madvise.2: Document MADV_WIPEONFORK and MADV_KEEPONFORK
• BZ - 1566315 - membarrier.2: Document membarrier(2) new syscall
• BZ - 1573281 - mlock.2: Document new mlock2(2) system call
• BZ - 1577265 - nospoof, spoof, and spoofalert were not implemented and apparently removed.
• BZ - 1592800 - (MPO-7.6-REMOVE) man-pages-overrides 7.6 remove bug tracker
• BZ - 1607318 - fields missing in the proc man page
• BZ - 1619272 - Provide bpf(2) man page

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.6_release_notes/index