RHBA-2024:5311 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for firewalld is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Description

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

Bug Fix(es):

• regression: undefined service causes firewalld load failure in RHEL8.5 (JIRA:RHEL-5790)

Enhancement(s):

• Add nftables icmptypes mld*-listener-* types to firewalld (JIRA:RHEL-13252)
• [RFE] firewalld feat: add support for rich language using ipset in destination (JIRA:RHEL-29875)
• RFE: firewall-cmd should be able to deal with nft-rules with "burst" (JIRA:RHEL-9316)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• RHEL-5790 - regression: undefined service causes firewalld load failure in RHEL8.5
• RHEL-9316 - RFE: firewall-cmd should be able to deal with nft-rules with "burst"

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)