RHBA-2024:9344 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for systemd is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Description

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.5 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 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64

Fixes

• RHEL-15501 - Services dying due a deadly signal are not generating core dumps anymore
• RHEL-31783 - systemd service child crashes when loading credentials
• RHEL-33990 - systemd-ukify should depend on systemd-boot-unsigned
• RHEL-35732 - systemd post-requires python (via policycoreutils-python-utils)
• RHEL-36284 - bootspec: fix null-dereference-read
• RHEL-13159 - run-credentials-systemd\x2dtmpfiles\x2dsetup.service.mount enters failed state on shutdown
• RHEL-27512 - Make the mkosi configuration in rhel9 repo functional with modern mkosi
• RHEL-35703 - manager: restrict Dump*() to privileged callers or ratelimit
• RHEL-40878 - Backport support for %systemd_postun_with_reload
• RHEL-50651 - Showing the CVM user that the virtual machine is actually confidential
• RHEL-50672 - Harden /bin/kernel-install to avoid failing silently when /etc/machine-id doesn't end with newline
• RHEL-54777 - Change how we apply patches
• RHEL-5950 - Update HWDB to support new HW [rhel-9.5.0]

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.5_release_notes/index