RHBA-2015:0318 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated supermin packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

Supermin is a tool for building supermin appliances. These are appliances
similar to virtual machines usually around 100KB in size, which get fully
instantiated on-the-fly in a fraction of a second when you need to boot one of them.

The supermin packages have been upgraded to upstream version 5.1.10, which
provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version.
Within this upgrade, the prelink dependency has been removed from the supermin packages as the prelink utility is not supported on 64-bit ARM architecture. (BZ#1021150, BZ#1093261)

This update also fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, the libguestfs utility had a number of dependencies with RPM

packages, which could, for some partners, raise security concerns. In addition, the number of dependencies works against the goal of a minimal, stable, and secure environment. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.1, libguestfs dependencies are split into subpackages, and thus only the necessary dependencies are involved. (BZ#1071676)

• Prior to this update, the supermin packages did not build on the Red Hat Enterprise Linux for POWER, little endian architecture. Consequently, the users of this platform did not have supermin available, which prevented other programs from working. With this update, supermin has been updated to support this platform, and the Red Hat Enterprise Linux for POWER, little endian architecture users now have working supermin packages. (BZ#1125690)

Users of supermin 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.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1021150 - Rebase supermin to 5.x in RHEL 7.1

CVEs

(none)

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#normal