RHBA-2026:18601 - 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 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 x86_64 - Extended Update Support 9.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 9.8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 9.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 9.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server for Power LE - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 9.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - 4 years of updates 9.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - 4 years of updates 9.8 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Life Cycle 9.8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Life Cycle 9.8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Life Cycle 9.8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Life Cycle 9.8 s390x

Fixes

• RHEL-109096 - Please own /etc/systemd/network
• RHEL-109488 - Feature Parity: Support `systemctl --when=` in RHEL 9.7.z
• RHEL-31756 - Getting "Unexpected error response from GetNameOwner(): Connection terminated", causing various services to be stopped unexpectedly
• RHEL-50103 - udev: backport NAMING_FIRMWARE_NODE_SUN
• RHEL-103801 - process that has a large number of open file descriptors (84190) and when it core dumps, the systemd-coredump utility can't handle this amount of information being sent via sendmsg() to the receiver systemd-coredump
• RHEL-109558 - [Azure][CVM][RHEL-9] The output of 'ukify inspect' contains malformed binary contents
• RHEL-129153 - [RFE] Backport request for SYSTEMD_DEFAULT_MOUNT_RATE_LIMIT_BURST and SYSTEMD_DEFAULT_MOUNT_RATE_LIMIT_INTERVAL_SEC to RHEL 9
• RHEL-131338 - systemd SIGABRT with IPAccounting
• RHEL-150622 - spec: systemd build fails due to rename of rhel-net-naming-sysattrs upstream
• RHEL-111135 - [RFE] Systemd should ignore unknown -- kernel command line options instead of failing during re-exec (glibc update scenario)
• RHEL-138414 - systemd complains with "Can't open PID file /run/restorecond.pid (yet?) after start: Operation not permitted", which is a confusing message

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.8_release_notes/index