RHBA-2018:0681 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for python-rhsm and subscription-manager is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The python-rhsm packages provide a library for communicating with the representational state transfer (REST) interface of a Red Hat Unified Entitlement Platform. The Subscription Management tools use this interface to manage system entitlements, certificates, and access to content.

The subscription-manager packages provide programs and libraries to allow users to manage subscriptions and yum repositories from the Red Hat entitlement platform.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.5 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Users of python-rhsm and subscription-manager 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 Server - AUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 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 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 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 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 for ARM 64 7 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7 ppc64le
• 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 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 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 IBM System z (Structure A) 7 s390x
• 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 - 1304056 - [RFE] Provide a D-Bus API for collecting system facts
• BZ - 1319927 - [RFE] subscription-manager should automatically enable yum plugins
• BZ - 1329349 - [RFE] Add a subscription-manager plugin to yum-config-manager
• BZ - 1330036 - Initial-setup : A message "Error during registration" when system is registered successfully but auto-attach failed due to installed products not being covered by a single service-level
• BZ - 1350402 - Bad error message is displayed when --file option missed an argument
• BZ - 1354667 - [RFE] Update 'invalid credentials' error to reflect a warning about network proxies
• BZ - 1367672 - Extraneous error message when satellite auto-attaches before subscription-manager
• BZ - 1380341 - GUI : Invalid credentials dialog pop out when you try to auto-attach / remove / update facts / list subscriptions in available subscriptions tab
• BZ - 1413161 - Explain importance of prefix in man pages, add satellite 6 example
• BZ - 1414529 - Unhelpful error message if a product certificate is corrupted.
• BZ - 1421010 - subscription-manager gui launched successfully without error dialog when configure invalid proxy
• BZ - 1422196 - subscription-manager-plugin-container doesn't refresh the entitlement certs
• BZ - 1443570 - [RFE] Please remove reference to retired article in subscription-manager man page
• BZ - 1444512 - GUI : Facts dialogue displays the consumer id of the system that is already deleted at server side
• BZ - 1448313 - rhsmd error shows when the first time register to satellite6.2.9
• BZ - 1448501 - GUI: Subscription-manager cannot unregister a system once network is up again
• BZ - 1457348 - Use 'https' for the redhat.com/forgot_password label
• BZ - 1459194 - It is not possible open Online Documentation, when env. var. LANG is unset
• BZ - 1461003 - [RFE] Remove --type option from subscription-manager register
• BZ - 1462928 - initial-setup displays "Validating connection" instead of "Error during registration" in a box "Subscription Manager"
• BZ - 1463325 - [RFE] Request for the Subscription manager to display the hostname it is registering as part of its output
• BZ - 1464571 - subscription-manager release --list does not handle the case when two "rhel-#" products are coincidentally installed
• BZ - 1466453 - [RFE] rhn-migrate-classic-to-rhsm should ensure subscription-manager yum plugin is enabled
• BZ - 1472715 - Python module rhsm should never call exit()
• BZ - 1472746 - GUI: Cannot sort My Subscriptions Tab by end date
• BZ - 1477958 - DBus object Attach does not reflect a changed state of a subscription identity
• BZ - 1480395 - After updating to latest subscription manager, abrt dumps seen for servers with "System Locale: LANG=ja_JP.UTF-8"
• BZ - 1481232 - [subscription-manager] Tier 0 Localization
• BZ - 1481384 - subscription-manager plugin updates redhat.repo with incorrect releasever on RateLimitExceededException
• BZ - 1483746 - UTF-8 encoding issues in D-Bus services
• BZ - 1485008 - subscription-manager register --type="RHUI" or --type="rhui" should both work as documented in various KBase articles
• BZ - 1487600 - subscription-manager-cockpit does not save proxy settings into /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf file
• BZ - 1487688 - subscription-manager-cockpit does not prefill "Registration" dialog by proxy settings from /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf file
• BZ - 1489399 - subscription-manager-cockpit displays raw error message when letting password field empty
• BZ - 1489521 - subscription-manager-cockpit - no feedback when deregistering a system and a server is down
• BZ - 1489877 - minor typo in /etc/rhsm/rhsm.conf comment
• BZ - 1489917 - disabling yum plugins using "false" (rather than "0") causes traceback: invalid literal for int() with base 10: 'false'
• BZ - 1491842 - rhsm.conf man page needs an update for new [rhsm] auto_enable_yum_plugins
• BZ - 1493711 - subscription-manager list --available --matches="foobar" is failing to filter pools
• BZ - 1499977 - Rebase subscription-manager component to the latest upstream branch for RHEL 7.5
• BZ - 1500106 - subscription-manager status --ondate=2099-12-25 is not passing the date to candlepin
• BZ - 1501889 - Even when --rhsm.auto_enable_yum_plugins=0 is set in rhsm.conf file yum plugins are automatically enabled after you execute RHSM commands
• BZ - 1506970 - subscription-manager-cockpit : Change the default url in cockpit to subscription.rhsm.redhat.com from subscription.rhn.redhat.com
• BZ - 1507158 - When connecting through a proxy, subscription-manager does not provide Host: in http CONNECT header
• BZ - 1508457 - Package file conflicts between subscription-manager-rhsm-1.20.4-1.el7.x86_64 and python-rhsm-1.20.2-1.el7.x86_64
• BZ - 1508591 - subscription-manager version module should no longer report the installed version of python-rhsm
• BZ - 1510024 - RHEL-ALT 7.4 subscription manager is not able to list releases on Power-9
• BZ - 1510200 - subscription-manager-migration-data for RHEL7.5 needs RHEL7.5 product certs (not RHEL7.4 certs)
• BZ - 1510727 - The subscription-manager gui could not be launched after delete the consumer info from the server side
• BZ - 1514067 - sub-man calls virt-what without absolute path
• BZ - 1516439 - Unregister DBus object returns a raw message when unregistering and a candlepin server is down
• BZ - 1519512 - Package profile upload failed if rpm vendor contains latin character
• BZ - 1525621 - [es_ES] missing a space character in one of the translated strings
• BZ - 1526385 - subscription-manager-cockpit : Doesnot auto-attach subscriptions anymore while registering
• BZ - 1526622 - the productid plugin should never delete a /etc/pki/product-default/<ID>.pem cert provided by the redhat-release-<VARIANT>.rpm
• BZ - 1527392 - subscription-manager-cockpit : Text fields in the "Register" dialog doesnt clear the data at all
• BZ - 1527813 - Subscription-manager-gui - online documentation throws 404 error

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/7.5_Release_Notes/index.html