RHBA-2016:0052 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated Satellite 6.1 packages that fix several bugs.

Description

Red Hat Satellite is a system management solution that allows organizations to configure and maintain their systems without the necessity to provide public Internet access to their servers or other client systems. It performs
provisioning and configuration management of predefined standard operating
environments.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Creating a host with incomplete information for a compute resource was giving incorrect error messages. The correct error message is now being returned (BZ#1177570)
• Support for synchronizing a capsule for a specific environment was added to the hammer command line. (BZ#1190893)
• The bootdisk image was not routing communication through the capsule. The code was fixed to appropriately use the capsule. (BZ#1193933)
• Configuring katello-installer to use external DNS via GSS-TSIG did not provide a working configuration. The templates were fixed to support this configuration. (BZ#1215659)
• Listing the puppet modules in a repository did not respect the applied filters. The correct number of puppet modules is now returned. (BZ#1222118)
• Cursor timeouts in mongo caused content view features in Satellite to fail. The timeout has been modified to not impact the features. (BZ#1224497)
• The SCAP client did not handle arrays properly from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 machines due to older Ruby versions. The code was updated to support the arrays from older Ruby versions. (BZ#1247175)
• Satellite was performing sync post-processing even if a repository did not change. The code was updated to skip this processing if it is not necessary. (BZ#1264560)
• The katello-service script was not starting services in the correct order, leading to a poor user experience at restart. The script was fixed to use the correct order. (BZ#1269352)
• There was a race condition on the capsule when generating templates. The proxy was improved to support concurrent releases. (BZ#1275647)
• Non admin users were blocked from performing bulk actions on hosts. This restriction was removed. (BZ#1281350)
• Satellite content tasks were failing due to qpid deadlocks. The qpid code was fixed to not deadlock. (BZ#1281947)
• Katello backups were slow due to compressing rpm data, which is already compressed. The backup script was fixed to not do redundant compression. (BZ#1283578)
• The operating system description was shown in the name column, leading to customer confusion. The correct value is now shown. (BZ#1283941)
• Editing config groups did not respect permission filters. These filters are now respected (BZ#1284475)

Users of Red Hat Satellite are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which contain backported patches to correct these issues and add this
enhancement.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

To update this system to include these fixes, ensure your system has
access to the latest Red Hat packages. For instructions on how to apply this update, refer to:

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

Then re-run the installer to complete the upgrade:

# katello-installer --upgrade

or

# capsule-installer --upgrade

Affected Products

• Red Hat Satellite 6.1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite 6.1 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite Capsule 6.1 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite Capsule 6.1 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1177570 - hammer host create with mac results in "mac value is blank"
• BZ - 1190893 - Allow hammer capsule content synchronization by --environment name
• BZ - 1193933 - Capsule Isolation: Generate bootdisk to use a capsule
• BZ - 1215659 - Configuring katello-installer to use external DNS via GSS-TSIG does not provide a working configuration
• BZ - 1222118 - Repository's puppet modules list shows extra puppet modules
• BZ - 1224497 - mongo cursor times out during regenerate_applicability_for_repos
• BZ - 1247175 - Need newer ruby for RHEL 5.x systems to work with puppet facter
• BZ - 1264560 - As a user, my rpm sync finishes quickly when upstream metadata hasn't changed
• BZ - 1275647 - Proxy templates API breaks on concurrent requests
• BZ - 1281350 - None admin users cant do bulk actions on hosts
• BZ - 1281947 - qdrouterd not responding in Satellite6
• BZ - 1283578 - katello-backup is slow on big pulp repositories
• BZ - 1283941 - Operating System description is shown in name column
• BZ - 1284475 - Filter with permission edit_config_groups is not actually limited by search expression

CVEs

(none)

References

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