RHSA-2017:0862 - Security Advisory

Topic

This is the final notification for the retirement of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
This notification applies only to those customers subscribed to the channel for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy, support
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 was retired on March 31, 2017, at the end of
Production Phase 3 and active support is no longer provided. As the product will
now be in the Extended Life Phase, customers will continue to have access to all
previously released content, and limited technical support will be available
through Red Hat's Customer Experience and Engagement as described in the
Knowledge Base article available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/64664 (search for "non-current minor release").

However, we recognize that some customers will wish to remain on Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5 even after the March 31, 2017 retirement date. To meet this
customer requirement, Red Hat will offer customers the option to purchase the
Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS) Add-On as an annually renewable subscription.
This ELS Add-On provides customers with up to an additional three and a half
(3.5) years of Critical Impact security fixes and selected Urgent Priority bug
fixes for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.11. Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ELS coverage
will conclude on November 30, 2020.

UPDATE: Note that the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ELS Add-On is available for the
x86 (32- and 64-bit) and z Systems architectures only. The Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 5 ELS Add-On is not available for the Itanium architecture. In addition,
the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 ELS Add-On is only available for Server, and does
not apply to layered products or Add-Ons.

To enjoy even more comprehensive product support, we encourage customers to
migrate from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to a more recent version. As a benefit
of the Red Hat subscription, customers may, of course, use their active
subscriptions to entitle any system on any currently supported Red Hat
Enterprise Linux release.

Instructions for migrating from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to Red Hat Enterprise
Linux 7 are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/1211223. Red Hat also has a Pre-upgrade Assistant tool to aid with the migration of Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 5 systems to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. For more
information about this tool, please see
https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1468623.

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 Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 5 s390x

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low
• https://access.redhat.com/articles/64664
• https://access.redhat.com/articles/1211223
• https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1468623
• https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/