RHSA-2019:0095 - Security Advisory

Topic

This is the final notification for the retirement of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 Extended Update Support (EUS). This notification applies only to those customers subscribed to the Extended Update Support (EUS) channel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7.

Description

In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy, Extended Update Support (EUS) for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.7 was retired as of December 31, 2018, 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 6.7 EUS after December 31, 2018. 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 6.7 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-server package that provides a copy of this retirement notice in the "/usr/share/doc/" directory.

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 6.7 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 6.7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 6.7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux EUS Compute Node 6.7 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1660645 - Send out RHEL 6.7 EUS Final Retirement Notice

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low