Recommended update for crypto-policies

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2024:2423-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5

An update that contains one feature and has one fix can now be installed.

Description:

This update for crypto-policies fixes the following issues:

  • Enable setting the kernel FIPS mode with the fips-mode-setup and fips-finish-install commands (jsc#PED-5041)
  • Adapt fips-mode-setup to use the pbl command from the perl-Bootloader package instead of grubby and add a note for transactional systems
  • Ship the man pages for fips-mode-setup and fips-finish-install
  • Make the supported versions change in the update-crypto-policies(8) man page persistent (bsc#1209998)

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Micro-5.5-2024-2423=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Micro 5.5 (noarch)
    • crypto-policies-20210917.c9d86d1-150400.3.6.1

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