RHBA-2016:2387 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for virt-who is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The virt-who service collects information about the connection between the hypervisor and its virtual guests that are present in the system and provides the subscription manager with a mapping file containing the hypervisor-guest pairs. The service periodically queries the hypervisor to report its guests and changes the mapping file accordingly, making sure that the information stored in the subscription manager is accurate.

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 virt-who 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 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 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 - 1245035 - Failed to send host/guest mapping to satellite5.7
• BZ - 1247866 - virt-who can't connect to vcenter instantly after reboot vcenter
• BZ - 1247928 - virt-who refresh interval is 15min although setting interval 1 hour
• BZ - 1263512 - virt-who can't detect the connect to vcenter was timeout
• BZ - 1265582 - virt-who generate too many timeout info when it can't reach the vcenter
• BZ - 1266976 - RFE; virt-who needs visibility into all networks in the environment in which it runs.
• BZ - 1271041 - [s390x]Failed to reload virt-who after re-register system
• BZ - 1271085 - virt-who shows "Communication with server failed" with RateLimitExceededException
• BZ - 1271252 - virt-who is sending every 15 minutes instead of configured every hour
• BZ - 1273270 - virt-who output so many duplicated info when executed with -o option for hyper-v mode
• BZ - 1278637 - Support for encrypted Hyper-V connection in virt-who
• BZ - 1286945 - Properly handle http 429 error code
• BZ - 1291737 - virt-who rebase
• BZ - 1292736 - running virt-who in big vmware environments results in to fast growing logfiles
• BZ - 1311632 - Guests are being reported with a guestid of ""
• BZ - 1315238 - Typo in /etc/virt-who.d/template.conf
• BZ - 1317372 - [RHEVH7.2] Virt-who can't work at vdsm mode as "SSLError: sslv3 alert handshake failure"
• BZ - 1322859 - [RFE] Report Hypervisor version info as a fact on the Hypervisor
• BZ - 1336507 - virt-who doesn't handle quoted strings
• BZ - 1337407 - "Invalid xml file" show in log when failed to connect rhevm as "Authentication failed"
• BZ - 1337757 - Virtwho failed to connect rhevm4.0 as get wrong api url
• BZ - 1337758 - virt-who need to add required package "python-setuptools.noarch"
• BZ - 1338596 - "Error in communication with subscription manager as BadStatusLine" when restart virt-who
• BZ - 1339419 - Unable to connect to ESX after set "simplified_vim=false"
• BZ - 1339863 - Failed to communicate with subscription-manager as "Interrupted system call"
• BZ - 1342364 - virt-who can't get mapping info if rhevm4.0 server url is not end with "/"
• BZ - 1346160 - [RHEVH7-ng-4.0]Virt-who failed to connect rhevm4.0 as "HTTP Error 404"
• BZ - 1346548 - Need to add XEN configure options in /etc/sysconfig/virt-who
• BZ - 1346577 - virt-who can't fetch the correct mapping info if use xencenter to manage the xen hosts
• BZ - 1347130 - Arbitrary code execution due to insecure loading of Python module(s) from CWD
• BZ - 1348387 - Errata fix needed for typo in virt-who template.conf
• BZ - 1353074 - virt-who failed to show the rhevm guest state, if the guest is running, the state is 0
• BZ - 1359571 - [Satellite5.7] virt-who send mapping info every refresh interval although no host/guests changes
• BZ - 1359640 - Can't print host's name and facts when run "virt-who -p"
• BZ - 1359653 - Can't filter host when set two hosts in "filter_host_uuids" with same quotes
• BZ - 1361434 - [RHEL7] Virt-who should not add "." at the end of ESX hypervisor hostname if the domain name is not configured.
• BZ - 1362351 - Virt-who can't detect unregistered system until 90s when it work at xen mode
• BZ - 1363943 - virt-who can be started in xen mode if no "env"/"owner" option in /etc/virt-who.d/xxx
• BZ - 1366999 - Generate redundant remind info when virt-who work at xen mode
• BZ - 1367287 - hypervisor_id=hostname/hwuuid can't work when vir-who work at xen mode

CVEs

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References

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