Recommended update for rhnlib, spacewalk-client-tools, spacewalksd, suseRegisterInfo

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2017:2925-1
Rating: moderate
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Affected Products:
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4

An update that has nine fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for rhnlib, spacewalk-client-tools, spacewalksd and suseRegisterInfo provides fixes and enhancements.

rhnlib (update to 2.7.2.1):

  • Support all TLS versions in rpclib. (bsc#1025312)
  • Add function aliases for backward compatibility. (bsc#998185)
  • Set one required attribute to be compatible with all xmlrpclib versions.
  • Don't use tmpDir configuration from /etc/sysconfig/rhn/up2date.
  • Multiple Python 2 and 3 compatibility fixes.

spacewalk-client-tools (update to 2.7.6.2):

  • Enable detection of Oracle Linux during registration.
  • Fix reboot message to use correct product name. (bsc#1031667)
  • Fix UnicodeDecodeError when running rhnreg_ks with a different locale than en_US.
  • Resolve /etc/hostname if not FQDN on traditional registration. (bsc#1019360)
  • Prevent crashes if machine-id is None. (bsc#994619)
  • Ignore packages with not UTF-8 characters in name, version and release. (bsc#990738)
  • Convert dbus.Int32 to int to fix a TypeError during registration. (bsc#974864)
  • Replace upstream subscription counting with new subscription matching. (fate#311619)
  • Multiple Python 2 and 3 compatibility fixes.

spacewalksd (update to 5.0.26):

  • Fix permissions of PID files in spacewalksd. (bsc#1049936)
  • Use spacewalk-update-status only on registered systems. (bsc#1015136)

suseRegisterInfo (update to 3.1.1)

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 Server 11 SP4
    zypper in -t patch slessp4-rhnlib-13335=1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4
    zypper in -t patch slessp4-rhnlib-13335=1

Package List:

  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (s390x x86_64 i586 ppc64 ia64)
    • suseRegisterInfo-3.1.1-15.3.1
    • spacewalksd-5.0.26.3-10.3.1
    • rhnlib-2.7.2.1-12.3.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 SP4 (noarch)
    • spacewalk-client-setup-2.7.6.2-22.3.1
    • spacewalk-check-2.7.6.2-22.3.1
    • spacewalk-client-tools-2.7.6.2-22.3.1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4 (ppc64 x86_64)
    • suseRegisterInfo-3.1.1-15.3.1
    • spacewalksd-5.0.26.3-10.3.1
    • rhnlib-2.7.2.1-12.3.1
  • SLES for SAP Applications 11-SP4 (noarch)
    • spacewalk-client-setup-2.7.6.2-22.3.1
    • spacewalk-check-2.7.6.2-22.3.1
    • spacewalk-client-tools-2.7.6.2-22.3.1

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