RHBA-2017:2297 - 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 7.4 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 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 - 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 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 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 Server - TUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 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 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 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 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 - 1026648 - improve error message for RefuseManual*
• BZ - 1225739 - RFE: Add age to remove file types opf systemd-tmpfiles
• BZ - 1298355 - kickstart stuck at "Reached Target Shutdown" stage when removing media before shutdown completes
• BZ - 1317518 - [+SPEC] remove bus-proxyd
• BZ - 1337244 - [RFE] support for TasksMax and DefaultTasksAccounting?
• BZ - 1351806 - Systemd is missing a tab completion for --now
• BZ - 1354410 - [RFE] Backport x-systemd.idle-timeout to RHEL7
• BZ - 1361601 - [RFE] Show actual running udev max-childs parameter
• BZ - 1368929 - [SPEC] systemd adds myhostname option from post script of package
• BZ - 1377055 - rpcbind.socket warn "Failed to parse address value, ignoring: [::]:111" after updating to 0.2.0-35 with ipv6 disabled
• BZ - 1379852 - SPC - Cannot restart host operating from container
• BZ - 1380259 - systemctl show changes
• BZ - 1381743 - In RHEL7, systemd-notify --ready fails, but directly using NOTIFY_SOCKET works (& both work in Fedora24)
• BZ - 1381885 - s390x standby memory automatically onlined after boot
• BZ - 1386824 - random-seed size should be 4096 bytes in size
• BZ - 1391944 - Networking goes down for VMs after upgrade to 7.3
• BZ - 1392426 - Add support to generate network interface name from phys_port_name
• BZ - 1396277 - BZ 1351415 change appears to have broken ability to set limits.
• BZ - 1403249 - return 0 from device_serialize()
• BZ - 1404251 - build of systemd sometimes fails
• BZ - 1404444 - [SPEC] /usr/lib/systemd/system/dbus-org.freedesktop.network1.service: broken symbolic link to `systemd-networkd.service'
• BZ - 1409527 - sd_journal_has_{runtime,persistent}_files APIs are not usable by applications
• BZ - 1409586 - Cannot modify CapabilityBoundingSet in drop-in file
• BZ - 1409588 - LimitNICE= for negative number sets incorrect nice value
• BZ - 1411199 - systemd-tmpfiles will not update existing journal files
• BZ - 1413041 - systemctl is-enabled should show targets
• BZ - 1413964 - systemctl exits with status 0 on a nonexisting service unit
• BZ - 1417459 - systemctl enable --now don't start the service
• BZ - 1418547 - journald manual does not describe DEFAULT_MAX_USE_UPPER (4G)
• BZ - 1421181 - ProtectHome option doesn't work when service runs in chroot
• BZ - 1421658 - systemd crashes when unit file is removed while service is executing ExecStartPre command
• BZ - 1426214 - Backport PassEnvironment= support in systemd.exec
• BZ - 1428110 - RFE: RuntimeDirectory= should resolve %i and other specifiers
• BZ - 1433687 - some systemd services will fail when using stateless linux mode
• BZ - 1435098 - Systemd bogus "No [Install] section" warning
• BZ - 1436021 - Restarting openvswitch triggers neutron-openvswitch-agent to start
• BZ - 1438749 - Incorrect dependancies prevent network services from starting if Network Manager is not used.
• BZ - 1439787 - [spec] remove systemd-sysusers manpages
• BZ - 1446140 - sd_journal_process() reports invalidation of journal files even when no invalidating event (unlink, rotation) took place
• BZ - 1446171 - System fails to shutdown with /usr on iSCSI

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/7.4_Release_Notes/index.html