RHBA-2021:4390 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for subscription-manager is now available for Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 8.

Description

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 8.5 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 for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.6 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1663390 - [ALL LANG][RHSM CLI] Unlocalized messages in addons module.
• BZ - 1663402 - [ALL LANG][RHSM CLI] Unlocalized message in role module.
• BZ - 1663429 - [ALL LANG][RHSM CLI] Unlocalized message in usage module.
• BZ - 1672805 - "Addons" is failing our spell check tests and should be changed to "Add-ons" to match Red Hat documentation
• BZ - 1682943 - lost a space between sentences due to an implicit string join
• BZ - 1749395 - error happens when run connection.UEPConnection.getPoolsList() given a newly created Stage Candlepin user
• BZ - 1793501 - Subscription start and end date format in JSON returned by RHSM DBus API is not consistent
• BZ - 1819555 - [ALL LANG][RHSM GUI][RHSM Cockpit] Unlocalized strings found on UI.
• BZ - 1856832 - man page entry missing for "--org" option under "ROLE OPTIONS" "USAGE OPTIONS" "ADDONS OPTIONS"
• BZ - 1857491 - Need some whitespace between two sentences of a container warning message.
• BZ - 1863039 - dnf uploadprofile does not read variables set by files in /etc/yum/vars/
• BZ - 1876828 - dnf list emits a "[Errno 13] Permission denied: '/var/log/rhsm/rhsm.log" message
• BZ - 1876841 - reposync gives misleading ERROR message when run as a non-root user
• BZ - 1878736 - translations from dnf-plugin-subscription-manager are not rendered in the expected LANG
• BZ - 1879856 - Warning message shouldnot be displayed when user tries to set valid syspurpose attributes with random case
• BZ - 1880920 - no warning message is displayed when you try to add invalid addons
• BZ - 1890314 - RFE: allow unprivileged use of repomanage et. al.
• BZ - 1897767 - what does 'No valid values provided for "usage"' mean to the user?
• BZ - 1898552 - subscription-manager facts use incorrect primary IP address
• BZ - 1916540 - Negative proxy tests occasionally encounter the wrong exception handling
• BZ - 1920017 - repos command description in man page is wrong
• BZ - 1920020 - AttributeError: 'module' object has no attribute 'foo' when list config values after setting --logging.default_log_level to a bad value
• BZ - 1922151 - It is not possible to gather AWS instance_id, when only IMDSv2 is enabled on AWS instance
• BZ - 1924126 - subscription-manager fails upload of modules profile due to aws-defined RHUI repositories with amazon-id configured regions
• BZ - 1927245 - The subscription-manager RPM package does not mark some directories as part of the RPM package
• BZ - 1937660 - Simple Content Access to Portal, EUS not working without manually attaching sub [rhel-8.5.0]
• BZ - 1944093 - [subscription-manager,syspurpose] RHEL 8.5 Tier 0 Localization
• BZ - 1949492 - rpm changelog for subscription-manager returns changelog messages twice
• BZ - 1950015 - Typos in man page for syspurpose
• BZ - 1951050 - subscription certificate file access permissions with non default umask
• BZ - 1951057 - Subscription manager doesn't remove the SCA entitlement certificate when switching back to Entitlement mode
• BZ - 1956764 - [ALL LANG][RHSM CLI] Unlocalized message in role/usage/addon/sla module.
• BZ - 1967780 - [IT] unexpected Italian translation change for msgid="proxy URL in the form of proxy_hostname:proxy_port"
• BZ - 1968420 - Update rhsm.conf man page with additional note duplicate entries are not honoured by subscription-manager
• BZ - 1971693 - Remove depreciation warning from syspurpose tool on RHEL 8.5
• BZ - 1973731 - unexpected error message due to an overzealous change from bug 1897767
• BZ - 1988090 - [RFE] subscription-manager should return a module stream's "activity" in the modular profile

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.5_release_notes/index