RHSA-2014:0014 - Security Advisory

Topic

This is the final notification for the retirement of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6.2 Extended Update Support (EUS).

Description

In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy,
Extended Update Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 is retired as of
January 7, 2014, and support is no longer provided. Accordingly, Red Hat
will no longer provide updated packages, including critical impact security
patches or urgent priority bug fixes, for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 EUS
after that date. In addition, technical support through Red Hat's Global
Support Services will no longer be provided after January 7, 2014.

Note: This notification applies only to those customers subscribed to the
Extended Update Support (EUS) channel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2.

We encourage customers to plan their migration from Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 6.2 to a more recent version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6. As a
benefit of the Red Hat subscription model, customers can use their active
subscriptions to entitle any system on a currently supported Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 6 release (6.3, 6.4, or 6.5 for which EUS is available).

Details of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux life cycle can be found here:
https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

Solution

This advisory contains an updated redhat-release-server package that
provides a copy of this retirement notice in the "/usr/share/doc/"
directory.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.2 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 6.2 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 6.2 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.2 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 6.2 i386
• Red Hat Storage 2.0 x86_64
• Red Hat Gluster Storage Server for On-premise 2.0 x86_64
• Red Hat Storage for Public Cloud (via RHUI) 2.0 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 6.2 x86_64

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
• https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/