RHEA-2014:1593 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated cryptsetup-luks packages that add one enhancement are now available for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The cryptsetup-luks packages provide a utility which allows users to set up
encrypted devices with the Device Mapper and the dm-crypt target.

This update adds the following enhancement:

• FIPS products are now defined by the presence of the dracut-fips package in

the system. During the initialization of a library, a cryptographic module is
supposed to determine if the library is a FIPS product to reduce the amount of
required integrity tests. For this purpose, a new constructor function has been
added to the cryptsetup-libs library. The constructor detects if the
/etc/system-fips file, which is a part of dracut-fips, exists in the system, and
determines if a FIPS integrity test is needed. (BZ#1009707)

Users of cryptsetup-luks are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
add this enhancement.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to
use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

• BZ - 1009707 - Need FIPS-140 update to self tests

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)