RHEA-2017:3172 - 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.

This enhancement update adds the iproute packages to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 for ARM and for IBM Power LE (POWER9).

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 7 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1477206 - ip -6 addrlabel return incorrect error message
• BZ - 1477491 - tc filter does not fail on malformed bytecode file
• BZ - 1477523 - tc filter with action simple can't be added
• BZ - 1480136 - iproute has removed some items from file rt_dsfield
• BZ - 1487152 - ss should only read /proc/slabinfo when required

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/articles/3158541
• https://access.redhat.com/articles/3158511