RHBA-2017:2803 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated Satellite 6.2 packages that fix several bugs are now available for Red Hat Satellite.

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 adds the additional RFEs:

• A new tool, satellite-host-rename, is now provided, which allows customers to rename a Satellite Server. Full documentation can be found in the Server Administration Guide under the "Renaming a Server" section. (BZ#924383)
• The hosts API now accepts a parameter, "thin", to return only host names. This provides a more performant call for iterating over a list of hosts. (BZ#1461194)
• Temporary subscriptions for guests are now valid for 7 days instead of 24 hours. This change should provide more time to address issues with virt-who without impacting the availability of Red Hat content. (BZ#1418482)

This update fixes the following bugs:

• 6.2.11 introduced a new dependency on katello-agent which was not represented in the RPM package. The dependencies now resolve correctly. (BZ#1482189)
• Several improvements have been made to synchronization of content to Capsules. (BZ#1370302, BZ#1432649, BZ#1448777)
• Specific customers encountered an error where synchronization plans stopped updating their status in the web UI. This communication path has been hardened. (BZ#1466919)
• Remote execution will no longer execute the same job multiple times if the host has many NICs or if the host belongs to many host groups. (BZ#1480235, BZ#1465628)
• Scheduling a recurring job would create duplicate subtasks. This behavior has been fixed, and there are no duplicates. (BZ#1478886)
• Large SCAP reports would not upload because of a low HTTP timeout. The timeout has been increased to allow the reports to upload. (BZ#1360452)
• The performance of the package page has been improved for customers who have large package downloads. (BZ#1419139)
• Satellite 6 was not able to connect to Red Hat Virtualization 4.1 instances. This platform can now be used as a Compute Resource. (BZ#1463264, BZ#1479954)
• Package filters were not respecting the package release version correctly. This field is now handled correctly. (BZ#1395642)
• Satellite 6 now supporting uploading RPMs whose headers are not UTF-8 compliant. (BZ#1333110)
• Regenerating certificates now regenerates Ueber Certificates as well. (BZ#1434948)
• The handing of Lifecycle permissions have been improved. (BZ#1317837)
• Manual registration was not recording who performed the registration if no Activation Key was used. (BZ#1380117)

Users of Red Hat Satellite are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

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, then execute the following
steps.

If you are on a self-registered Satellite, download all packages
before stopping Satellite Server:
# yum update --downloadonly

Stop Katello services:
# katello-service stop

Update all packages:
# yum update

Perform the update:
# satellite-installer --upgrade

For detailed instructions how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_satellite/6.2/html/installation_guide/updating_satellite_server_capsule_server_and_content_hosts

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 - 924383 - [RFE] Need a server side tool to assist with the process of changing the hostname of the Katello server
• BZ - 1317837 - Problems with lifecycle env list when using role for view only
• BZ - 1333110 - Uploading rpm fails with "InvalidStringData: strings in documents must be valid UTF-8"
• BZ - 1370302 - ISO repository to Capsule synchronization fails with error "Katello::Errors::PulpError: PLP0000: Importer indicated a failed response"
• BZ - 1380117 - content hosts show no info under "registered by" in 6.2.x
• BZ - 1395642 - Content view filter cannot distinguish between multiple packages with the same version but different release number
• BZ - 1419139 - packages page is slow
• BZ - 1432649 - New packages are not synced from the satellite to capsule even after a successful capsule sync.
• BZ - 1434948 - --certs-regenerate-ca should also regenerate ueber certificates
• BZ - 1448777 - Content sync/promotion fails to all capsules if one capsule is down
• BZ - 1461194 - [RFE] API to fetch list of hosts without full host details
• BZ - 1463264 - Cannot add RHV 4.1 as Compute Resource
• BZ - 1465628 - A remote job runs multiple times on a single server that belongs to multiple Host Collections
• BZ - 1466919 - Sync Plans not fully executing
• BZ - 1478886 - Scheduling a remote job to recurring creates identical duplicate sub-tasks
• BZ - 1479954 - provision rhev vms with cloudinit user-data templates
• BZ - 1480235 - Remote Execution Job runs multiple times on Hosts with more than one Interface
• BZ - 1485942 - duplicate key value violates unique constraint "index_katello_subscription_facets_on_user_id" on registering host

CVEs

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References

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