RHBA-2013:1531 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated corosync packages that fix several bugs and add two enhancements are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

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

These updated corosync packages include numerous bug fixes and two enhancements.
Space precludes documenting all of these changes in this advisory. Users are
directed to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5 Technical Notes for information on
the most significant of these changes:

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.5_Technical_Notes/corosync.html#RHBA-2013-1531

Users of corosync 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/site/articles/11258

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 - 854216 - [TOTEM] FAILED TO RECEIVE + corosync crash
• BZ - 877349 - it should be possible to start corosync-notifyd without editing (nonexisting) /etc/sysconfig/corosync-notifyd
• BZ - 880598 - objdb: Don't read uninitialized memory in inc/dec
• BZ - 881729 - logsys: Race between logsys_format_set and log_printf_to_logs functions
• BZ - 906432 - Corosync 1.4.1 does not support IPv6 double colon notation in /etc/corosync/corosync.conf totem section
• BZ - 907894 - CPG: Corosync can duplicate and/or lost messages - Multiple nodes problems
• BZ - 915769 - coroparse: Read unitialized memory if config file contains service without name
• BZ - 916227 - Corosync ignore sigint (and other signals) if exit is requested before full initialization
• BZ - 922671 - CPG: Corosync can duplicate and/or lost messages - Local IPC
• BZ - 924261 - cfg service: When shutdown cannot be processed immediately, it's not possible to repeat
• BZ - 947936 - Corosync doesn't detect non-existing user in uidgid config section
• BZ - 949491 - [RFE]: Implement a pause detector
• BZ - 959184 - Corosync can exit because of SIGPIPE
• BZ - 959189 - Corosync doesn't preempt in confdb properly and can hang on exit

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/6.5_Technical_Notes/corosync.html#RHBA-2013-1531