RHBA-2012:0953 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated tog-pegasus packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The tog-pegasus packages provide OpenPegasus Web-Based Enterprise Management
(WBEM) services for Linux. WBEM enables management solutions that deliver
increased control of enterprise resources. WBEM is a platform and resource
independent Distributed Management Task Force (DMTF) standard that defines a
common information model (CIM) and communication protocol for monitoring and
controlling resources from diverse sources.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, with the Single Chunk Memory Objects (SCMO) implementation, empty

string values in embedded instances were converted to null values during the
embedded CIMInstance to SCMOInstance conversion. This was due to the usage of
the _setString() function that set the string size to 0 if the string was empty.
This broke functionality of the existing providers. A backported upstream patch
uses the _SetBinary() function instead which is already used while setting the
string values on the normal SCMOInstance. (BZ#796191)

• Previously, the tog-pegasus packages did not provide a generic "cim-server",

which could be required by packages that do not need a specific implementation
of the CIM server as a dependency. With this update, the tog-pegasus packages
provide a generic "cim-server" that can be required by such packages.
(BZ#799040)

All users of tog-pegasus are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
fix these bugs.

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/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 796191 - Issue with empty string values in the embedded instances
• BZ - 799040 - tog-pegasus should Provide: cim-server to be consistent with sblim-sfcb

CVEs

(none)

References

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