RHSA-2014:1340 - Security Advisory

Topic

This is the 6-Month notification for the retirement of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5.9 Extended Update Support (EUS). This notification applies only to
those customers subscribed to the Extended Update Support channel for Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9.

Description

In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy,
Extended Update Support (EUS) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.9 will be
retired as of March 31, 2015, and support will no longer be 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 5.9 EUS after March 31, 2015. In addition, technical
support through Red Hat's Global Support Services will no longer be
provided after this date.

We encourage customers to plan their migration from Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5.9 to a more recent version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. As a
benefit of the Red Hat subscription model, customers can use their active
subscriptions to entitle any system on any currently supported Red Hat
Enterprise Linux release.

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

Solution

This erratum contains an updated redhat-release 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 5.9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.9 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.9 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.9 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.9 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 5.9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 5.9 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 5.9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Update Support from RHUI 5.9 i386

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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