RHBA-2020:1117 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for systemd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 7.8 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

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 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

Fixes

• BZ - 1545372 - [SPEC] rpm -V failures
• BZ - 1560417 - A systemd automount that timeout will not end up in a failed state
• BZ - 1585411 - systemd.automount fails after update to 7.5 in case of missing mount point
• BZ - 1630378 - systemd: Failed at step CGROUP spawning /bin/umount: No such file or directory
• BZ - 1641777 - High load in systemd when cups.path and cups.service is enabled
• BZ - 1659516 - Add a udev rule to set the permissions properly for amdkfd
• BZ - 1710302 - systemd respawns forever services triggered by a timer if fork() fails when executing ExecStart command
• BZ - 1718953 - Layered slices are left in a "dead" state if slices are stopped that have child slices underneath
• BZ - 1726785 - keepalived will not terminate with systemctl stop
• BZ - 1733998 - ExecStopPost not run after exit-failure for forking type
• BZ - 1743230 - journalctl dumps core when stack limit is reduced to 256 KB
• BZ - 1745199 - Running 'systemctl isolate' on any target disconnects any active sessions, including sending signal 15 to ssh sessions from other users.
• BZ - 1748051 - Rules in 40-redhat.rules file for SUBSYSTEM==memory are suboptimal and may lead to timing issues
• BZ - 1760149 - systemctl daemon-reload crashes systemd "free(): invalid next size (fast)" malloc

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.8_release_notes/index