RHBA-2018:1672 - 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 fixes the following bugs:

• TLS 1.2 is now enabled by default on Satellite 6.2. (BZ#1331041, BZ#1548093)
• Performance problems with registration, such as concurrent registrations and task blocking have been improved based on work with larger customers. (BZ#1490019, BZ#1514508, BZ#1553845)
• A new dispatch router has been released to fix a segmentation fault caused by long running use. (BZ#1535891)
• Performance problems with the katello-errata query have been improved and backported to Satellite 6.2. (BZ#1518804)
• Performance problems with memory consumption when searching for an unqualified hostgroup have been improved and backported to Satellite 6.2. (BZ#1547986)
• Performance problems with the subscription page when the user has a large volume of hosts have been improved and backported to Satellite 6.2. (BZ#1551674)
• Restarting a pulp worker with running tasks caused the tasks to be in a broken state. This problem has been fixed. In such cases, tasks are stopped with warning "Task canceled". This fix has been backported to Satellite 6.2. (BZ#1526437)
• Synchronization tasks that were interrupted by Satellite restarting were not completing. This is now fixed and has been backported to Satellite 6.2. (BZ#1548167)
• The foreman-debug tool has been updated to collect the foreman-maintain logs. This improves the ability to analyze problems during upgrades. (BZ#1542407)
• The katello-backup tool can now use relative paths. (BZ#1544396)
• Users received errors when they created hosts using hammer with two network interfaces if eth0 was not the primary interface. This is now fixed. (BZ#1417053)
• Users were not able to manage their own taxonomies. This functionality has been enabled. (BZ#1476843)
• Custom products created for RHEL5 were not using the correct checksum type. SHA1 is now used for these repositories. (BZ#1480694)

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.

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 - 1417053 - hammer host create returns "ip can't be blank" with interface attached to subnet with IPAM set to internal DB
• BZ - 1476843 - User cannot edit own taxonomies
• BZ - 1480694 - Custom Repositories built with SHA1 checksums produce incorrect SHA256 repodata
• BZ - 1514508 - [RFE] allow registrations to occur without blocking on task completion
• BZ - 1526437 - Tasks stuck in waiting after restart of pulp services
• BZ - 1535891 - qdrouterd 0.4-22 can still return qd:no-route-to-dest, with independent segfault bug
• BZ - 1542407 - [RFE] Update foreman-debug to collect logs in 6.2.z
• BZ - 1544396 - k-backup fails when passed a relative path for the destination
• BZ - 1547986 - unqualified search on hostgroup uses large amount of memory
• BZ - 1548093 - smart_proxy_dynflow_core weak cipher
• BZ - 1548167 - sync task does not ever complete if satellite is interrupted during run
• BZ - 1551674 - subscription page unusable with many hosts registered
• BZ - 1553845 - concurrent registration occasionally fails with "host_id has already been taken" error
• BZ - 1557545 - Installer Race condition causing an error with Certifications of capsules.

CVEs

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References

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