RHBA-2018:1490 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for collectd is now available for RHEV 4.X RHEV-H and Agents for RHEL-7 and RHEV Engine version 4.2.

Description

collectd is a small C-language daemon, which reads various system metrics periodically and updates RRD files (creating them if necessary). Because the daemon does not start up each time it updates files, it has a low system footprint.

Changes to the collectd component:

• To avoid having to configure collectd's default configuration file /etc/collectd.conf when configuring plugins, the /etc/collectd.d file must be configured for plugins instead. (BZ#1495500)
• Highlights, important fixes, or notable enhancements:
• Released a new version of collectd. See https://collectd.org/news.shtml#news106 for the list of changes.
• Fixes CVE-2017-16820. (BZ#1536083)

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Virtualization Manager 4.2 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1477661 - Tag collectd for RHV 4.2.0
• BZ - 1495500 - Global collectd configurations that are set in collectd.d/ will not apply to plugins that are loaded in collectd.conf
• BZ - 1536083 - Upgrade collectd to 5.8.0

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)