RHBA-2016:2216 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for systemd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The systemd packages contain systemd, a system and service manager for Linux, compatible with the SysV and LSB init scripts. It provides aggressive parallelism capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, and keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups. In addition, it supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and automount points, and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. It can also work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Users of systemd are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

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 - 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 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 7.3 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.5 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 7.3 ppc64le
• 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 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 ppc64le
• 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
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 947636 - journalctl indexing by block device
• BZ - 1142369 - 'systemctl' does not properly run the 'start', 'restart' or 'status' for a .service file containing an '@'
• BZ - 1261136 - Start of *-ask-password-*.path units fails without Message= field in existing ini file
• BZ - 1265749 - RFE:- Option to disable colourful output of journalctl
• BZ - 1267707 - systemd-logind __epoll_wait_nocancel crash
• BZ - 1268336 - systemd-analyze set-log-level manpage fix
• BZ - 1272368 - Race condition on systemd-run --scope --slice=foo
• BZ - 1278165 - AArch64: detect-virt: enable ACPI-boot guest detection
• BZ - 1284974 - Lack of systemd-importd causes machinectl to fail
• BZ - 1285492 - systemctl can't read symlinks to SysVinit service scripts in /etc/init.d after upgrading to RHEL 7.2's systemd-219-19.el7
• BZ - 1285642 - journald.conf - changed default for ForwardToSyslog parameter
• BZ - 1285863 - systemd umounts any /dev/shm-based tmpfs mountpoints automagically nearly immediately after mount
• BZ - 1285996 - systemctl disable fails when /etc/systemd/system is a symlink
• BZ - 1287618 - Wrong definition of default value in man page logind.conf
• BZ - 1288600 - sysv generator may produce unit file containing lines that are longer than 2048 characters
• BZ - 1292447 - journald stop logging
• BZ - 1296249 - Message appearing ' <xyz>.device appeared twice with different sysfs paths'
• BZ - 1296288 - tmpfiles: don't follow symlinks when adjusting ACLs, fille attributes…
• BZ - 1298109 - tmpfs is unexpectedly mounted on /tmp in rhel-7
• BZ - 1305279 - RFE: Please provide option RandomizedDelaySec= to systemd timer
• BZ - 1305608 - 100% CPU utilization when SSH connections reach ~10 per second
• BZ - 1307080 - nspawn catches kill signal only when using jenkins
• BZ - 1308795 - /dev/disk/by-id/wwn-* links for SATA devices have words in reverse order
• BZ - 1312011 - Fix rule setting SYSTEMD_READY=0 for DM devices (like multipath) which may cause improper automatic unmounts
• BZ - 1312201 - [SPEC] systemd should require glib2 ?
• BZ - 1316452 - Please backport/apply socket_address_listen() fix to allow boot system with new libselinux package
• BZ - 1317544 - [SPEC] -devel and -python should depend on -libs
• BZ - 1318994 - Backport journald fixes
• BZ - 1324826 - RuntimeDirectory created with wrong group ownership
• BZ - 1327303 - journal-remote: change owner of /var/log/journal/remote and create /var/lib/systemd/journal-upload
• BZ - 1329232 - [SPEC] add systemd-journal-upload user to systemd-journal group
• BZ - 1329233 - Add Seal option in the configuration file for journald-remote
• BZ - 1330593 - sshd segmentation fault
• BZ - 1330973 - getaddrinfo hangs for 25 seconds if ipv6 is disabled
• BZ - 1331667 - [rhel7.3] Backport memory leak bug fixes
• BZ - 1332606 - device: make sure to not ignore re-plugged device
• BZ - 1335499 - backport LockedHint and SetLockedHint from logind
• BZ - 1339721 - CGroup: /system.slice/mnt.mount not accepting mount options given /etc/fstab for glusterfs.fuse
• BZ - 1343648 - SELinux label for /etc/udev/hwdb.bin is etc_t instead of systemd_hwdb_etc_t after "#systemd-hwdb update"
• BZ - 1343904 - systemd-run does not make the new scope unit part of the slice specified via the --slice arg
• BZ - 1350232 - journald Error was encountered while opening journal files: Invalid argument
• BZ - 1351415 - [RFE] Unable to set soft and hard limits for services under systemd
• BZ - 1362461 - 'systemctl status' returns 0 for failed services
• BZ - 1365870 - Systemd-tmpfiles does not set owner/group defined by z-directive
• BZ - 1370133 - Reboot from emergency.target hangs when rootfs is on LUKS
• BZ - 1370161 - s390x standby memory automatically onlined after boot
• BZ - 1370299 - Cannot start a .slice via dbus api StartTransientUnit
• BZ - 1371437 - logind: don't assert if the slice is missing
• BZ - 1373950 - systemctl preset prints extraneous message
• BZ - 1375097 - systemctl preset-all doesn't work if there is a dangling aliases present in /usr/lib/systemd/system

CVEs

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References

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