RHSA-2017:0863 - Security Advisory

Topic

This is the final 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.

Description

In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy, Extended
Life Cycle Support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 was retired on March 31, 2017,
and active support is no longer 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 Customer Experience and
Engagement will be limited as described under "non-current minor releases" in
the Knowledge Base article located here 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/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 - 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

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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