RHBA-2018:3245 - 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 7.6 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 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 Power, big endian 7 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 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 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 - 1191920 - [nfs service] "service nfs reload-or-try-restart (force-reload)" failed after "service nfs stop"
• BZ - 1305509 - [man] systemd.service documentation on TimeoutStopSec is incorrect
• BZ - 1316278 - incorrect SELinux label on /sys/fs/cgroup and restorecon fails with "Read-only file system"
• BZ - 1351793 - Race between systemctl start (and likely others) vs systemctl daemon-reload
• BZ - 1432211 - open_count / holders not being decremented at unmount of private nested mount points
• BZ - 1436004 - Unexpected, catastrophic behavior from systemd-tmpfiles
• BZ - 1446095 - "systemd-analyze dump" fails with "Failed issue method call: No buffer space available"
• BZ - 1549119 - systemd segfaults running test case https://github.com/systemd/systemd-fedora-ci/tree/master/issue-1981
• BZ - 1550534 - systemd doesn't delete stub unit files created for session scopes
• BZ - 1552712 - udevadm control man page contains wrong '-x' option
• BZ - 1553076 - Help messages for udevadm commands contains non-working option '--version'
• BZ - 1572244 - Out of date documentation details of /lib/systemd/system/proc-sys-fs-binfmt_misc.mount
• BZ - 1573838 - Allow LUKS2 format in systemd/cryptsetup binary
• BZ - 1582383 - Backport 'rpm: fix %systemd_user_post() macro. ' and ' rpm: remove confusing --user before --global Fixes #9027.'
• BZ - 1587906 - Request backport of Upstream commit 382852fd581efe3cc0ae11154102ab9f435adea1
• BZ - 1597240 - X1 Carbon 3rd Gen touchpad not disabled when notebook lid closed
• BZ - 1601794 - Document SIGCONT when stopping a service
• BZ - 1619743 - Add support for keydev option to systemd-cryptsetup-generator

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/7.6_Release_Notes/index.html