RHEA-2016:2162 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

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

Description

The iproute packages contain networking utilities such as ip and rtmon designed to use the advanced networking capabilities of the Linux kernel.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Users of iproute 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 for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.3 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 - AUS 7.3 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 IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.3 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 Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 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 for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 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 - TUS 7.3 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 EUS Compute Node 7.3 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 Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 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 for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 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 - 1105438 - ip tunnel help and ip-tunnel manpage have inconsistent list of modes
• BZ - 1121258 - neither valid_lft preferred_lft are listed in the ip-address(8) manpage
• BZ - 1221185 - ip rule list does not allow selectors and shows incorrect usage
• BZ - 1231898 - Doc: There are no mention about confflags (home, nodad, ...) in ip-address man-page
• BZ - 1261520 - Missing manpage for tc fq
• BZ - 1264146 - ip-link manpage does not contain query_rss option
• BZ - 1265238 - ss returns zero (ok) when invalid option is added
• BZ - 1272405 - iproute2: "ip -o link" doesn't show devices entries in a single line when reporting SR-IOV devs.
• BZ - 1275426 - RFE: add generic action framework documentation
• BZ - 1276661 - Doc: ip-neighbour man page and ip neighbour help issues
• BZ - 1277094 - ip neighbour segfaults if bad mac address is used
• BZ - 1286711 - manpage for tc needs info on filters
• BZ - 1290860 - Rework list of patches, replace by upstream backports
• BZ - 1291818 - ss -an does not show only TCP sockets as manpage suggests
• BZ - 1291825 - iproute: 'ip addr flush' failed to send flush request: Cannot assign requested address
• BZ - 1297000 - Fix help output for certain link types
• BZ - 1300765 - Add support for MACsec
• BZ - 1314403 - tc segfaults when printing filters with multiple xt actions attached
• BZ - 1315930 - tc filter with action simple can't be added
• BZ - 1316059 - Add a man page for rtpr
• BZ - 1333513 - backport multicast: Extend ip address command to enable multicast group join/leave on
• BZ - 1339178 - RFE: add Geneve support
• BZ - 1340914 - Add support to configure SR-IOV VF minimum and maximum Tx rate through ip tool
• BZ - 1341343 - Support listing interfaces by type or master
• BZ - 1362551 - Missing cbq man-page
• BZ - 1362561 - 'Rule 0 is special. It cannot be deleted or overridden.' has appeared in ip-rule man-page

CVEs

(none)

References

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