RHBA-2011:1515 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated corosync packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are
now available.

Description

The corosync packages provide the Corosync Cluster Engine and C Application
Programming Interfaces (APIs) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux cluster software.

These updated selinux-policy packages include numerous bug fixes and
enhancements. Space precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory.
Users are directed to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 Technical Notes for
information on the most significant of these changes:

https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.2_Technical_Notes/corosync.html#RHBA-2011-1515

All corosync users 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.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red
Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage for x86_64 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Resilient Storage (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 6 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 599327 - [RFE] - display diagnostic message in log and exit when local NIC fault or firewall enabled prevents totem from forming a cluster
• BZ - 677583 - *** buffer overflow detected ***: corosync-fplay terminated
• BZ - 682813 - corosync does not null terminate strings when strncpy
• BZ - 688260 - corosync-cpgtool does not specify both interfaces in a dual ring configuration
• BZ - 692620 - cpg messages fail after overloaded node fails
• BZ - 696883 - Corosync segfaults with Pacemaker and CMAN
• BZ - 696887 - segfault due to invalid 'conn' pointer after killing "corosync-cfgtool -r"
• BZ - 707860 - Crashing when going over open file limits.
• BZ - 707862 - Corosync - unaligned access would result in bus error on non x86
• BZ - 707867 - [RFE] corosync-objctl - add float and double support and create new object
• BZ - 707873 - corosync - Provide better checking of the message type
• BZ - 707875 - corosync - Remove checking of sub parameters in service.d files
• BZ - 707876 - add proper dependency on syslog to corosync init
• BZ - 709758 - corosync process at 100% - 500% CPU usage
• BZ - 712115 - corosync confdb connection can cause segfault
• BZ - 712126 - corosync coroipcc doesn't handle case when recvmsg can return 0
• BZ - 712188 - corosync-objctl -t run multiple times with heavy load deadlocks corosync
• BZ - 722469 - [RFE] Add support for redundant ring for standalone Corosync (not RHEL HA/Cluster stack)
• BZ - 722522 - corosync crashes with combo of lossy network and config changes
• BZ - 732698 - corosync sometimes crashes while doing cman_tool join; cman_tool leave in a loop

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://docs.redhat.com/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.2_Technical_Notes/corosync.html#RHBA-2011-1515