RHBA-2023:4279 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for sos is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 and Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 9.

Description

The sos package contains a set of utilities that gather information from
system hardware, logs, and configuration files. The information can then be
used for diagnostic purposes and debugging.

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

• sos report collects data from container instead of host due to symlinks    Triaged (BZ#2075720)
• sos report --clean doesn't obfuscate all MAC addresses. (BZ#2207562)
• RFE: embed Grub's "custom.cfg" and "user.cfg" in the sosreport (BZ#2213951)
• Exception raised by hpssm plugin in plug.setup(). (BZ#2216608)
• rebase sos to 4.5.5 in rhel8.8 and 9.2 (BZ#2217943)
• sos clean - Respect permissions of sanitised files (BZ#2218279)

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 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 9.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.2 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 8.8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.4 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.2 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.4 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.2 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.4 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.2 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 2075720 - sos report collects data from container instead of host due to symlinks
• BZ - 2207562 - sos report --clean doesn't obfuscate all MAC addresses.
• BZ - 2213951 - RFE: embed Grub's "custom.cfg" and "user.cfg" in the sosreport
• BZ - 2216608 - Exception raised by hpssm plugin in plug.setup().
• BZ - 2217943 - rebase sos to 4.5.5 in rhel8.8 and 9.2
• BZ - 2218279 - sos clean - Respect permissions of sanitised files

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)