RHBA-2017:1628 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated cockpit packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras.

Description

Cockpit is a server administration interface that makes it easy to administer GNU/Linux servers through a web browser.

The cockpit packages have been upgraded to upstream version 141, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. Most notable changes are:

• Now users can change Docker container environment variables.
• When formatting disks, Cockpit now attempts to destroy used partitions.

Users of cockpit 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.

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 Virtualization 4 for RHEL 7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1458804 - Rebase Cockpit in RHEL Extras 7.3.6

CVEs

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References

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