RHBA-2010:0021 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated Red Hat Network Satellite packages that address several issues
using the Web User Interface are now available.

Description

Red Hat Network Satellite is a systems management tool for Linux-based
infrastructures. It allows for the provisioning, remote management and
monitoring of multiple Linux deployments with a single, centralized tool
with a Web User Interface (Web UI).

These updated Red Hat Network Satellite packages provide fixes for the
following bugs:

• selecting a large number of packages, such as several thousand, in the

Web UI resulted in receiving a 302 status code (Moved Temporarily).
(BZ#512844)

• removing one or more packages from thousands of systems using the System

Set Manager resulted in out-of-memory errors or timeouts. (BZ#525549)

• scheduling a package removal using the System Set Manager timed out when

thousands of systems were selected. (BZ#526823)

• when creating a kickstart profile, "@base" was not automatically

populated in the list of software packages. (BZ#536825)

• cloning a kickstart profile did not result in the retention of the source

profile's package profile. (BZ#537491)

• the profile.comparePackages() API call did not return the correct

results. (BZ#538213)

• applying hundreds of errata to a single system resulted in the process

timing out with a 500 status code (Internal Server Error). (BZ#538559)

• the system.listSystems() and system.listUserSystems() API calls were much

less performant after upgrading to RHN Satellite version 5.3.0. (BZ#542830)

• when selecting packages to add to a channel, clicking "Select All" took a

very long time and would eventually time out. (BZ#548208)

All Red Hat Network Satellite users are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, which resolve these issues.

Solution

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

To update all RPMs for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh [filenames]

where [filenames] is a list of the RPMs you wish to upgrade. Only those
RPMs which are currently installed will be updated. Those RPMs which are
not installed but included in the list will not be updated. Note that you
can also use wildcards (*.rpm) if your current directory *only* contains
the desired RPMs.

Please note that this update is also available via Red Hat Network. Many
people find this an easier way to apply updates. To use Red Hat Network,
launch the Red Hat Update Agent with the following command:

up2date

or, for RHEL 5:

yum update

This will start an interactive process that will result in the appropriate
RPMs being upgraded on your system.

After installing the needed packages you will need to run:

rhn-satellite restart

Affected Products

• Red Hat Satellite with Embedded Oracle 5.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite with Embedded Oracle 5.3 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 512844 - Buffer Overflow in org.apache.jk.common.MsgAjp cpBytes When Adding Red Hat Errata
• BZ - 525549 - Java OOM (OutOfMemory) when removing a package via SSM (System Set Manager)
• BZ - 526823 - SSM Packages remove confirm page times out with too many systems
• BZ - 536825 - [regression] Prepared ks profiles' software package list looks empty (no '@Base' there)
• BZ - 537491 - Cloned kickstart profile loses package information
• BZ - 538213 - profile.comparePackages() doesn't return correct set
• BZ - 538559 - Satellite 5.3 webui 500 error and causes high cpu of Oracle/Java when installing errata
• BZ - 542830 - system.listSystems and system.listUserSystems takes too long when there are many systems
• BZ - 548208 - Channel->Packages->Add performance issue: "Select All" packages is slow (sometimes times out)

CVEs

(none)

References

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