RHBA-2016:2699 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated Satellite 6.2 packages that fix several bugs and add two enhancements are now available.

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:

• Uploading a manifest for a second organization was failing due to duplicate content IDs. An unnecessary unique index was removed to support this case. (BZ#1388201)
• Performance improvements have been made to the dashboard. (BZ#1384199, BZ#1374038)
• Performance improvements have been made to the installation and upgrade process. (BZ#1264597, BZ#1381702)
• The performance of errata applicability has been improved. (BZ#1387314)
• The performance of free-form text searching has been improved. (BZ#1380486)
• Several memory leaks have been fixed in the qpid dispatch router. (BZ#1340375, BZ#1366232, BZ#1353458, BZ#1367735)
• Virt-who checkins will now use the default organization if the hypervisor is not associated to an organization. (BZ#1357878)

Users of Red Hat Satellite 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.

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:

# satellite-installer --scenario satellite --upgrade

or

# satellite-installer --scenario capsule --upgrade

Affected Products

• Red Hat Satellite 6.2 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite 6.2 for RHEL 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite Capsule 6.2 for RHEL 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite Capsule 6.2 for RHEL 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1264597 - Installer upgrade should only perform errata/gpg/rpm steps once
• BZ - 1340375 - Backport DISPATCH-154 to Satellite / qpid-dispatch-router
• BZ - 1353458 - qdrouterd stops responding on any connection while waiting for hung DNS PTR query
• BZ - 1357878 - virt-who checkin should use default org view unless the hypervisor is registered
• BZ - 1366232 - qdrouterd segfault with "double free or corruption" in pn_class_decref
• BZ - 1367735 - qpidd consuming huge memory during scale
• BZ - 1374038 - long running sql statement on dashboard (> 90 sec)
• BZ - 1380486 - free form search is very slow, not excluding installed packages and applicable errata
• BZ - 1381702 - Remove the standard pulp unit storage path migration
• BZ - 1384199 - Host Collection widget takes too long to render
• BZ - 1387314 - Errata applicability generate is taking a very long time
• BZ - 1388201 - candlepin content_id changes cause manfiest import/refresh failure
• BZ - 1390356 - Katello-installer fails to start squid on EL6 systems.

CVEs

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References

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