RHSA-2017:0342 - Security Advisory

Topic

This is the One-Month notification for the retirement of Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5.6 Advanced Mission Critical (AMC). This notification applies only to
those customers subscribed to the Advanced Mission Critical (AMC) channel for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6.

Description

In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy, Advanced
Mission Critical for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 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 5.6 AMC after
March 31, 2017. In addition, 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 5.6 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 notice in the "/usr/share/doc/" directory.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.6 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 5.6 i386

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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