RHBA-2025:2618 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

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

Description

The libsemanage library provides an API for the manipulation of SELinux binary policies. It is used by the checkpolicy compiler and similar utilitlies, as well as by programs such as load_policy, which must perform specific transformations on binary policies, such as customizing policy Boolean settings.

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

• python function "restorecon" not working when executed from python script (JIRA:RHEL-73348)

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
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder for IBM z Systems 8 s390x

Fixes

• RHEL-73348 - python function "restorecon" not working when executed from python script

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)