Issued:
2015-07-22
Updated:
2015-07-22

RHBA-2015:1304 - librtas bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

librtas bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated librtas packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The librtas packages contain a set of libraries that allow access to the Run-Time Abstraction Services (RTAS) on 64-bit PowerPC architectures. The librtasevent library contains definitions and routines for analyzing RTAS events.

The librtas packages have been upgraded to upstream version 1.3.13, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#1148742)

Users of librtas are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

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

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

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64

Updated Packages

  • librtas-devel-1.3.13-1.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • librtas-devel-1.3.13-1.el6.ppc.rpm
  • librtas-1.3.13-1.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • librtas-1.3.13-1.el6.ppc.rpm
  • librtas-debuginfo-1.3.13-1.el6.ppc.rpm
  • librtas-debuginfo-1.3.13-1.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • librtas-1.3.13-1.el6.src.rpm

Fixes

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CVEs

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References

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Additional information