RHSA-2016:1986 - Security Advisory

标题

This is the Six-Month notification for the retirement of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 4 Extended Life Cycle Support Add-On (ELS). This notification applies only
to those customers subscribed to the Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS) channel
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.

描述

In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy, Extended
Life Cycle Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 will be retired as of March
31, 2017, and active 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 4 ELS after
March 31, 2017. In addition, on-going technical support through Red Hat's Global
Support Services will be limited as described under "non-current minor releases"
in the Knowledge Base article located at
https://access.redhat.com/articles/64664 after this date.

We encourage customers to migrate from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 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/site/support/policy/updates/errata/

解决方案

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

受影响的产品

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 4 i386

修复

CVE

(none)

参考

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
• https://access.redhat.com/site/support/policy/updates/errata/
• https://access.redhat.com/articles/64664