Issued:
2017-03-30
Updated:
2017-03-30

RHSA-2017:0855 - Security Advisory

Synopsis

Low: Red Hat Satellite 5 - day of End Of Life Notice

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Low

Topic

This is the day of notification of the End Of Life (EOL) plans for the following versions of Red Hat Satellite 5:

  • Red Hat Satellite 5.6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Description

After March 31, 2017, as per the life-cycle support policy for Red Hat Satellite, Red Hat will discontinue technical support services as well as software maintenance services for all Red Hat Satellite and Proxy versions 5.6 or older on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The listed versions will exit the existing Limited Maintenance Release phase. This means that new bug fixes, security updates, and product enhancements will no longer be provided for the following product versions:

  • Red Hat Satellite 5.6 and Proxy 5.6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5

Details of the Satellite support policy can be found at:

https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/satellite/

Notes:

1) Red Hat will continue to support Red Hat Satellite and Proxy on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 and later.

2) Red Hat Satellite 5.6 and Proxy 5.6 on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will be EOL on March 31 2017.

How to proceed:

  • All affected Satellite and Proxy users must plan to upgrade to a newer version prior to March 31 2017.
  • Find an overview of various aspects for this upcoming EOL date at

https://access.redhat.com/articles/2868391

  • If you have a Technical Account Manager, contact that person immediately to discuss upgrade plans.
  • Otherwise, contact Red Hat support for assistance at

https://www.redhat.com/en/services/support

  • Alternatively, Red Hat Consulting can be engaged to assist with a smooth migration, see https://www.redhat.com/en/services/consulting

More information on Red Hat Consulting for Satellite can be found in the PDF document linked to in the References section.

It is critical to ensure you have a plan to migrate to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 prior to March 31, 2017.

Customers who choose to continue to deploy on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will continue to have access via Red Hat Network (RHN) to the following content as part of their active Red Hat Satellite subscription:

  • Previously released bug fixes, security updates, and product enhancements.
  • Red Hat Knowledgebase and other content (whitepapers, reference architectures, etc.) found in the Red Hat Customer Portal.
  • All Red Hat Satellite documentation.

Customers are strongly encouraged to take the advantage of the upgrade benefits of their active Red Hat Satellite subscription, and migrate to an active version of Red Hat Satellite such as version 5.6 or 5.7.

Details of the Red Hat Satellite life-cycle can be found at:

https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/satellite/

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

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

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

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Satellite 5.6 for RHEL 5 x86_64
  • Red Hat Satellite 5.6 for RHEL 5 s390x

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

Red Hat Satellite 5.6 for RHEL 5

SRPM
spacewalk-certs-tools-2.0.1-4.el5sat.src.rpm SHA-256: 322dbf5ec84a338c9c3ff4956d6899ddee252cad6e995fa97d5670e7783528f9
x86_64
spacewalk-certs-tools-2.0.1-4.el5sat.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 6e295bca8870eb25246e333a20e10227fdfaeb72a7524d87065b06a6037490ae
s390x
spacewalk-certs-tools-2.0.1-4.el5sat.noarch.rpm SHA-256: 6e295bca8870eb25246e333a20e10227fdfaeb72a7524d87065b06a6037490ae

The Red Hat security contact is secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.