RHBA-2023:7097 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for systemd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Description

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, 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 IBM z Systems 8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 1719364 - OnCalendar timers with RandomizedDelaySec != 0 may never run
• BZ - 2156620 - Rootless podman unable to run after enabling cgroupsv2 (systemd related)
• BZ - 2156751 - systemd-resolved sends icmp port unreachable to the slowest upstreams
• BZ - 2156786 - [RHEL8.7/systemd/RFE] loginctl list session's idle time column.
• BZ - 2158167 - systemd-logind: Assertion 'pid > 1' failed at ../src/login/logind-dbus.c:3332, function manager_start_scope()
• BZ - 2158724 - systemd can send non-UTF8 messages over DBus, causing DBus to disconnect it
• BZ - 2172846 - sd_bus_add_match often fails with EINTR "Interrupted system call"
• BZ - 2176892 - Failed to start Flush Journal to Persistent Storage [rhel-8.9.0]
• BZ - 2179309 - CI fixes for RHEL-8.9
• BZ - 2187761 - The parameter "myhostname" is added to /etc/nsswitch,conf after updating systemd package.
• BZ - 2190151 - systemd-pstore crashes when attempting to move standalone files out of /sys/fs/pstore
• BZ - 2209328 - Fix potential crash in logind
• BZ - 2211358 - Assertion 'sz <= d->buffer_filled' failed at ../src/libsystemd/sd-event/sd-event.c:3229, function event_inotify_data_drop()
• BZ - 2211416 - Follow-up fixes for systemd-pstore
• BZ - 2215925 - Services configured with Delegate=yes and having a ExecStartPost/ExecStopPost command fail
• BZ - 2223582 - test-login fails when executed under Fedora's mock
• BZ - 2231846 - Update list of RHEL specific network naming schemes - RHEL 8.9.0

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.9_release_notes/index