RHEA-2018:3231 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

An update for kmod-oracleasm is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

Oracle ASM (Automated Storage Management) is a data volume manager for Oracle databases. ASMLib is an optional utility that can be used on Linux systems to manage Oracle ASM devices. ASMLib consists of the following components: - kmod-oracleasm (open-source (GPL) kernel module package) - oracleasm-support (open-source (GPL) utilities package) - oracleasmlib (proprietary library package) ASM features and functionality are available without ASMLib. In addition, the use of ASMLib does not affect database performance.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Users of kmod-oracleasm are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.6_release_notes/index