IP6tables does not support SRC/DST port ranges in RHEL5

Issue

• The version of ip6tables available in RHEL 5 doesn't properly support port ranges with the -m multiport flag.

  # ip6tables -A INPUT -p TCP  -m multiport --dports 32768:65535 -j ACCEPT
  ip6tables v1.3.5: invalid port/service `32768:65535' specified
  Try `ip6tables -h' or 'ip6tables --help' for more information.
  

• Option -m multiport will work if --dports or --sports are listed with commas i.e --dport smtp,ssh,http . It's just the range with the colon that isn't accepted.

• Can it be updated with a patch
• The ip6tables coming with rhel 6 does work.