RHBA-2015:1401 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated fence-virt packages that fix two bugs and add one enhancement are now
available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The fence-virt packages provide a fencing agent for virtual machines, as well as
a host agent that processes fencing requests.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Previously, the fence-virt utility in some case incorrectly returned a zero

exit code when it detected an error in processing a request. With this update,
the static analysis errors that caused this problem have been fixed, and
fence-virt now returns appropriate error codes if it detects an error.
(BZ#1125290)

• Due to an incorrectly configured range of supported TCP and multicast ports,

fence-virt did previously not work properly with certain ports. This update
fixes the range of supported TCP and multicast ports, which prevents the problem
form occurring. (BZ#1078197)

In addition, this update adds the following enhancement:

• When the fence-virt and fence-xvm utilities are invoked with the "-o status"

parameter, they now print their status in a more comprehensible manner, as
either "Status: ON" or "Status: OFF". (BZ#1020992)

Users of fence-virt are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix
these bugs and add this enhancement.

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 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• 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 Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• 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 Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 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
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 1020992 - "fence_virt -H node -o status" does not report status visually
• BZ - 1078197 - Fix supported TCP/multicast port range
• BZ - 1125290 - fence_virt can return 0 on failure

CVEs

(none)

References

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