RHBA-2019:2783 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated satellite-schema, spacewalk-backend, spacewalk-java, and spacewalk-schema packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Satellite 5.8.0.

Description

Red Hat Satellite provides a solution to organizations requiring absolute control over and privacy of the maintenance and package deployment of their servers. It allows organizations to utilize the benefits of Red Hat Network (RHN) without having to provide public Internet access to their servers or other client systems. Red Hat Satellite 5.8.0 can be upgraded to from earlier releases.

This update fixes the following bugs:

• Initialize the SSL context based on system defaults instead of using an internal custom routine. (BZ#1584836)
• rhel-x86_64-appstream-8 channel was causing cobbler-sync-default to look for non-existent kickstart file on Satellite 5.8. (BZ#1717071)
• spacewalk-clone-by-date was failing with the following error: 'unhandled internal exception: query did not return a unique result: 2. (BZ#1727809)
• Cannot register RHEL 8 servers with the boostrap.sh script. (BZ#1728416)
• cdn-sync was failing with LOB variable no longer valid after subsequent fetch (BZ#1735715)

Solution

Application of this errata involves updating the database schema.

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied. To apply this erratum, take the following steps:

• Shut down Red Hat Satellite by running the following command as root:

rhn-satellite stop

• Upgrade the errata packages. Details on how to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258
• Start Red Hat Satellite by running the following as root:

rhn-satellite start

Affected Products

• Red Hat Satellite 5.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Satellite 5.8 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1584836 - Initialize SSL context based on system defaults instead of using an internal custom routine
• BZ - 1717071 - rhel-x86_64-appstream-8 channel causes cobbler-sync-default to look for non-existent kickstart on Satellite 5.8
• BZ - 1727809 - spacewalk-clone-by-date failed with 'unhandled internal exception: query did not return a unique result: 2
• BZ - 1728416 - Can't register RHEL8 with boostrap.sh
• BZ - 1735715 - cdn-sync fails with LOB variable no longer valid after subsequent fetch

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/articles/273633
• https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258