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

RHBA-2015:1386 - wireless-tools bug fix update

Synopsis

wireless-tools bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated wireless-tools packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The wireless-tools packages contain tools used to manipulate the Wireless Extensions. The Wireless Extension is an interface that allows the user to set Wireless LAN specific parameters and to get statistics for wireless networking equipment.

This update fixes the following bug:

  • In an environment with a large number of wireless access points, using the wicd connection manager or the network-manager tool to connect to a wireless network previously failed. With this update, the buffer limit of the "iwlist scan" command has been adjusted not to exceed the maximum iwlist buffer amount, which prevents this problem from occurring. (BZ#857920)

Users of wireless-tools are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix this bug.

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 Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Retired Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • wireless-tools-devel-29-6.el6.i686.rpm
  • wireless-tools-devel-29-6.el6.ppc.rpm
  • wireless-tools-debuginfo-29-6.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • wireless-tools-devel-29-6.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • wireless-tools-29-6.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • wireless-tools-debuginfo-29-6.el6.i686.rpm
  • wireless-tools-debuginfo-29-6.el6.s390.rpm
  • wireless-tools-29-6.el6.i686.rpm
  • wireless-tools-29-6.el6.ppc.rpm
  • wireless-tools-devel-29-6.el6.s390.rpm
  • wireless-tools-29-6.el6.s390x.rpm
  • wireless-tools-29-6.el6.s390.rpm
  • wireless-tools-debuginfo-29-6.el6.s390x.rpm
  • wireless-tools-29-6.el6.src.rpm
  • wireless-tools-29-6.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • wireless-tools-devel-29-6.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • wireless-tools-debuginfo-29-6.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • wireless-tools-debuginfo-29-6.el6.ppc.rpm
  • wireless-tools-devel-29-6.el6.s390x.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information