RHBA-2012:1108 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated spacewalk-backend, spacewalk-java, and spacewalk-utils packages that fix
several bugs are now available for Red Hat Network Satellite 5.4.

Description

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

This update fixes the following bugs:

• The errata.clone() and errata.cloneAsOriginal() API methods allow the user to

clone selected errata to another channel and are designed to wait for the
cloning process to finish before they return to the calling function. This can
be problematic, because when either of these API methods is used to clone a
large number of errata, the cloning process can take an extensive amount of
time, the connection can time out, and the user can be presented with a Service
Temporarily Unavailable error as a result. To address this problem, this update
introduces two asynchronous API methods, errata.cloneAsync() and
errata.cloneAsOriginalAsync(). These new API methods initiate the cloning
process in the background and immediately return so that this error no longer
occurs. (BZ#745688)

• When the base channel of a kickstart profile did not have the checksum type

specified, an attempt to change this base channel by using the web user
interface failed and the user was presented with an Internal Server Error. This
update corrects this error and ensures that such a base channel can be changed
as expected. (BZ#836610)

• Prior to this update, an attempt to register a system with Red Hat Network

Satellite could fail with an error if the client system did not have IPv6
support enabled. This update ensures that that system registration continues
successfully in this situation. (BZ#837605)

• When the user created a clone of a cloned channel, this second clone

incorrectly listed errata that it already contained as available for cloning.
This update corrects this error and ensures that the second clone no longer
lists errata as available if it already contains them. (BZ#839611)

All users of Red Hat Network Satellite 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/kb/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Satellite with Embedded Oracle 5.4 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite with Embedded Oracle 5.4 for RHEL 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite with Embedded Oracle 5.4 for RHEL 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 837605 - RHN Satellite raises traceback about ip6addr when doing hardware sync from new clients (RHEL 6.3)

CVEs

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References

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