Synopsis

Red Hat Network Proxy server spacewalk-proxy bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated server spacewalk-proxy packages that fix two bugs are now available for
Red Hat Network Proxy 5.6.

Description

Red Hat Network Proxy provides a mechanism for caching content, such as package
updates from Red Hat or custom content created for an organization on an
internal, centrally located server.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• In Red Hat Network Proxy 5.6, files that exceed a certain size limit are
  written to the /tmp directory instead of holding them in memory, which allows
  Proxy to serve files that are larger than the memory size. However, if the file
  was larger than the available space in /tmp, an error occurred. This update
  allows the user to configure the maximum file size to hold in memory so that
  they can customize this behavior for their environment. The default is to hold
  files smaller than 1GB entirely in memory. To adjust this behavior, set the
  proxy.max_mem_file_size= parameter in the /etc/rhn/rhn.conf
  file. (BZ#1150110)
  
• In Red Hat Network Proxy 5.6, files that exceed a certain size limit are
  written to the /tmp directory instead of holding them in memory, which allows
  Proxy to serve files that are larger than the memory size. However, writing
  large files to /tmp takes longer than holding them in memory, so if the files
  were too large or the connection too slow, the client's connection timed out
  when using Proxy 5.6 as opposed to Proxy 5.5. This update allows the user to
  configure the maximum file size to hold in memory so that they can customize
  this behavior for their environment. This update also sets a default size of 1GB
  before files are written to /tmp so that there is no change in speed for most
  users when compared with Proxy 5.5. (BZ#1156152)
  

All users of Red Hat Network Proxy 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 Satellite Proxy 5.6 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite Proxy 5.6 for RHEL 6 s390x
• Red Hat Satellite Proxy 5.6 for RHEL 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite Proxy 5.6 for RHEL 5 s390x

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Red Hat Satellite Proxy 5.6 for RHEL 6

SRPM
spacewalk-proxy-2.0.1-9.el6sat.src.rpm	SHA-256: e6b6626292408b9a54eae11ce6fd70772cb356e1f534c06b91d50241a96a1157
x86_64
spacewalk-proxy-broker-2.0.1-9.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 94f070ebc243a28863a84f8d4c912452f7cdd1d7edea1947d8f7c97f10d0e2cb
spacewalk-proxy-common-2.0.1-9.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: f789ef4acabf0ead9601f75be3d7386c97bc43a5cf890072f4e9ce86dd5863cb
spacewalk-proxy-management-2.0.1-9.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: c84086414a22cba7f6e4329890f1751cdd9f75e254180da82df078e68b2fdb33
spacewalk-proxy-package-manager-2.0.1-9.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 434656be1e75df3436eb6928e15fd594dabdc1d882d4de2d74f7d62a34ad8810
spacewalk-proxy-redirect-2.0.1-9.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: a13f6a20e12eb4c005aaf0ac96af0296a5a3d6e67a1e1fe80e98a30e0d8d6318
s390x
spacewalk-proxy-broker-2.0.1-9.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 94f070ebc243a28863a84f8d4c912452f7cdd1d7edea1947d8f7c97f10d0e2cb
spacewalk-proxy-common-2.0.1-9.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: f789ef4acabf0ead9601f75be3d7386c97bc43a5cf890072f4e9ce86dd5863cb
spacewalk-proxy-management-2.0.1-9.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: c84086414a22cba7f6e4329890f1751cdd9f75e254180da82df078e68b2fdb33
spacewalk-proxy-package-manager-2.0.1-9.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 434656be1e75df3436eb6928e15fd594dabdc1d882d4de2d74f7d62a34ad8810
spacewalk-proxy-redirect-2.0.1-9.el6sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: a13f6a20e12eb4c005aaf0ac96af0296a5a3d6e67a1e1fe80e98a30e0d8d6318

Red Hat Satellite Proxy 5.6 for RHEL 5

SRPM
spacewalk-proxy-2.0.1-9.el5sat.src.rpm	SHA-256: 2a54d8d7100c30e570d7d083d58839b92b1e6b2f3b7ba93f1c8cd758cc3a66b2
x86_64
spacewalk-proxy-broker-2.0.1-9.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: d4967a381caffd01389087f985a5b0d746f1db1e1b5a6fa3a12c0f666550b2e9
spacewalk-proxy-common-2.0.1-9.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 4964a617b7ceb6ad04392af135215f83dd8aeb0fba562f1f10e09499294a6a1a
spacewalk-proxy-management-2.0.1-9.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: eb35ebc64d4cd7bdda0c092ebe4a992d947605ef830b8869da72656a87524637
spacewalk-proxy-package-manager-2.0.1-9.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: efb92d1ae19600fdd2016ccee5ce9406de9344ed20c58a00c3ae26e1b7391856
spacewalk-proxy-redirect-2.0.1-9.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: ea5a7b7f42fddb65d6570ea69030adb54c4807bc754c828b9b9c5c4b3a8edfab
s390x
spacewalk-proxy-broker-2.0.1-9.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: d4967a381caffd01389087f985a5b0d746f1db1e1b5a6fa3a12c0f666550b2e9
spacewalk-proxy-common-2.0.1-9.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: 4964a617b7ceb6ad04392af135215f83dd8aeb0fba562f1f10e09499294a6a1a
spacewalk-proxy-management-2.0.1-9.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: eb35ebc64d4cd7bdda0c092ebe4a992d947605ef830b8869da72656a87524637
spacewalk-proxy-package-manager-2.0.1-9.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: efb92d1ae19600fdd2016ccee5ce9406de9344ed20c58a00c3ae26e1b7391856
spacewalk-proxy-redirect-2.0.1-9.el5sat.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: ea5a7b7f42fddb65d6570ea69030adb54c4807bc754c828b9b9c5c4b3a8edfab