- Issued:
- 2010-10-07
- Updated:
- 2010-10-07
RHBA-2010:0748 - Bug Fix Advisory
Synopsis
rhnlib and up2date bug fix update
Type/Severity
Bug Fix Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
Updated up2date and rhnlib packages that fix a bug that caused the Red Hat
Network and Red Hat Network Satellite registration to fail when the Desktop
Management Interface (DMI) contained a control character or when the hardware
name contained a non-ASCII character are now available.
Description
The Red Hat Update Agent, up2date, automatically queries the Red Hat Network
servers and determines which packages need to be updated on your machine. The
rhnlib package contains a collection of Python modules that are used by the Red
Hat Network (RHN) software.
These updated packages fix the following bug:
- Previously, the presence of less commonly used characters from the Latin-1
character set in the hardware name rendered the system unable to register to
both Red Hat Network (RHN) and Red Hat Network Satellite Server. This error has
been fixed, and the system registration now works as expected. (BZ#624379)
All users of up2date and rhnlib are advised to upgrade to these updated
packages, which resolve this issue.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.
This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red
Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 4.8 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 4.8 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 4.8 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4 s390
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 4.8 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 4.8 s390
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4 ppc
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 4.8 ppc
Fixes
- BZ - 624379 - error sending hardware profile when non-xmlrpc-compliant chars are returned by dmidecode
CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 4
SRPM | |
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rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.src.rpm | SHA-256: c68324eccfd90369947031882df582850b975f6b31daaf226652ce55e9524493 |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.src.rpm | SHA-256: c220d176dab844262d96affff7b2ceca724d35997f72aed6a4afd70799eecee2 |
x86_64 | |
rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: f7b7e2f11efe1baf3d0dcd8b01580397d4d14dc99414e7f414f2dcf7ea4c306e |
rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: f7b7e2f11efe1baf3d0dcd8b01580397d4d14dc99414e7f414f2dcf7ea4c306e |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: f2819fc324037169fabb1978ce3b3ab869e55ce6c4fa9e0b683ffdf5cf1b5712 |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: f2819fc324037169fabb1978ce3b3ab869e55ce6c4fa9e0b683ffdf5cf1b5712 |
up2date-gnome-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 719156f1a82c9027e2a9c9b141177b1e691905e9a98caef30c11835f776aa5ba |
up2date-gnome-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 719156f1a82c9027e2a9c9b141177b1e691905e9a98caef30c11835f776aa5ba |
ia64 | |
rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: f7b7e2f11efe1baf3d0dcd8b01580397d4d14dc99414e7f414f2dcf7ea4c306e |
rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: f7b7e2f11efe1baf3d0dcd8b01580397d4d14dc99414e7f414f2dcf7ea4c306e |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 27b5a04acb91c2b7e15856a1fb182ddf060181b7ca363cc39c5529222b2bac15 |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 27b5a04acb91c2b7e15856a1fb182ddf060181b7ca363cc39c5529222b2bac15 |
up2date-gnome-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 3e53ba75bebd55fcd7d8c66eccc84c20bb35949f2719a55d3fe1c1fc58c4eda4 |
up2date-gnome-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 3e53ba75bebd55fcd7d8c66eccc84c20bb35949f2719a55d3fe1c1fc58c4eda4 |
i386 | |
rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: f7b7e2f11efe1baf3d0dcd8b01580397d4d14dc99414e7f414f2dcf7ea4c306e |
rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: f7b7e2f11efe1baf3d0dcd8b01580397d4d14dc99414e7f414f2dcf7ea4c306e |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 137860491172e5f9f99a21cfb4ae344520210c2a81c91a950dde76399a62be91 |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 137860491172e5f9f99a21cfb4ae344520210c2a81c91a950dde76399a62be91 |
up2date-gnome-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 91701a65835a4aae84e075b6f5d226b4a041ed77505e6422bc658888c101039f |
up2date-gnome-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 91701a65835a4aae84e075b6f5d226b4a041ed77505e6422bc658888c101039f |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 4.8
SRPM | |
---|---|
rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.src.rpm | SHA-256: c68324eccfd90369947031882df582850b975f6b31daaf226652ce55e9524493 |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.src.rpm | SHA-256: c220d176dab844262d96affff7b2ceca724d35997f72aed6a4afd70799eecee2 |
x86_64 | |
rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: f7b7e2f11efe1baf3d0dcd8b01580397d4d14dc99414e7f414f2dcf7ea4c306e |
rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: f7b7e2f11efe1baf3d0dcd8b01580397d4d14dc99414e7f414f2dcf7ea4c306e |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: f2819fc324037169fabb1978ce3b3ab869e55ce6c4fa9e0b683ffdf5cf1b5712 |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: f2819fc324037169fabb1978ce3b3ab869e55ce6c4fa9e0b683ffdf5cf1b5712 |
up2date-gnome-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 719156f1a82c9027e2a9c9b141177b1e691905e9a98caef30c11835f776aa5ba |
up2date-gnome-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 719156f1a82c9027e2a9c9b141177b1e691905e9a98caef30c11835f776aa5ba |
ia64 | |
rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: f7b7e2f11efe1baf3d0dcd8b01580397d4d14dc99414e7f414f2dcf7ea4c306e |
rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: f7b7e2f11efe1baf3d0dcd8b01580397d4d14dc99414e7f414f2dcf7ea4c306e |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 27b5a04acb91c2b7e15856a1fb182ddf060181b7ca363cc39c5529222b2bac15 |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 27b5a04acb91c2b7e15856a1fb182ddf060181b7ca363cc39c5529222b2bac15 |
up2date-gnome-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 3e53ba75bebd55fcd7d8c66eccc84c20bb35949f2719a55d3fe1c1fc58c4eda4 |
up2date-gnome-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 3e53ba75bebd55fcd7d8c66eccc84c20bb35949f2719a55d3fe1c1fc58c4eda4 |
i386 | |
rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: f7b7e2f11efe1baf3d0dcd8b01580397d4d14dc99414e7f414f2dcf7ea4c306e |
rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: f7b7e2f11efe1baf3d0dcd8b01580397d4d14dc99414e7f414f2dcf7ea4c306e |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 137860491172e5f9f99a21cfb4ae344520210c2a81c91a950dde76399a62be91 |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 137860491172e5f9f99a21cfb4ae344520210c2a81c91a950dde76399a62be91 |
up2date-gnome-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 91701a65835a4aae84e075b6f5d226b4a041ed77505e6422bc658888c101039f |
up2date-gnome-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 91701a65835a4aae84e075b6f5d226b4a041ed77505e6422bc658888c101039f |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.src.rpm | SHA-256: c68324eccfd90369947031882df582850b975f6b31daaf226652ce55e9524493 |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.src.rpm | SHA-256: c220d176dab844262d96affff7b2ceca724d35997f72aed6a4afd70799eecee2 |
x86_64 | |
rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: f7b7e2f11efe1baf3d0dcd8b01580397d4d14dc99414e7f414f2dcf7ea4c306e |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: f2819fc324037169fabb1978ce3b3ab869e55ce6c4fa9e0b683ffdf5cf1b5712 |
up2date-gnome-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 719156f1a82c9027e2a9c9b141177b1e691905e9a98caef30c11835f776aa5ba |
ia64 | |
rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: f7b7e2f11efe1baf3d0dcd8b01580397d4d14dc99414e7f414f2dcf7ea4c306e |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 27b5a04acb91c2b7e15856a1fb182ddf060181b7ca363cc39c5529222b2bac15 |
up2date-gnome-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 3e53ba75bebd55fcd7d8c66eccc84c20bb35949f2719a55d3fe1c1fc58c4eda4 |
i386 | |
rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: f7b7e2f11efe1baf3d0dcd8b01580397d4d14dc99414e7f414f2dcf7ea4c306e |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 137860491172e5f9f99a21cfb4ae344520210c2a81c91a950dde76399a62be91 |
up2date-gnome-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 91701a65835a4aae84e075b6f5d226b4a041ed77505e6422bc658888c101039f |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.src.rpm | SHA-256: c68324eccfd90369947031882df582850b975f6b31daaf226652ce55e9524493 |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.src.rpm | SHA-256: c220d176dab844262d96affff7b2ceca724d35997f72aed6a4afd70799eecee2 |
x86_64 | |
rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: f7b7e2f11efe1baf3d0dcd8b01580397d4d14dc99414e7f414f2dcf7ea4c306e |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: f2819fc324037169fabb1978ce3b3ab869e55ce6c4fa9e0b683ffdf5cf1b5712 |
up2date-gnome-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 719156f1a82c9027e2a9c9b141177b1e691905e9a98caef30c11835f776aa5ba |
i386 | |
rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: f7b7e2f11efe1baf3d0dcd8b01580397d4d14dc99414e7f414f2dcf7ea4c306e |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 137860491172e5f9f99a21cfb4ae344520210c2a81c91a950dde76399a62be91 |
up2date-gnome-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.i386.rpm | SHA-256: 91701a65835a4aae84e075b6f5d226b4a041ed77505e6422bc658888c101039f |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 4
SRPM | |
---|---|
rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.src.rpm | SHA-256: c68324eccfd90369947031882df582850b975f6b31daaf226652ce55e9524493 |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.src.rpm | SHA-256: c220d176dab844262d96affff7b2ceca724d35997f72aed6a4afd70799eecee2 |
s390x | |
rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: f7b7e2f11efe1baf3d0dcd8b01580397d4d14dc99414e7f414f2dcf7ea4c306e |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: 13ae03571c6ac90878cb9fdae56d33da4809f6f47e4f7dcc8fa14470b7bf9342 |
up2date-gnome-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: bb106e0433a358020e0a03fff96a758a7308b526ed62ab433501c9a7a30874db |
s390 | |
rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: f7b7e2f11efe1baf3d0dcd8b01580397d4d14dc99414e7f414f2dcf7ea4c306e |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.s390.rpm | SHA-256: 451d081d2fd23381c1c35d3c368190ee86a0d77114d317a9b904a5975c8a7204 |
up2date-gnome-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.s390.rpm | SHA-256: 3663b6f60cb01761c1c9b998d57c2418377b147a4a31cc0b42175ab6a0286b4f |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems - Extended Update Support 4.8
SRPM | |
---|---|
rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.src.rpm | SHA-256: c68324eccfd90369947031882df582850b975f6b31daaf226652ce55e9524493 |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.src.rpm | SHA-256: c220d176dab844262d96affff7b2ceca724d35997f72aed6a4afd70799eecee2 |
s390x | |
rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: f7b7e2f11efe1baf3d0dcd8b01580397d4d14dc99414e7f414f2dcf7ea4c306e |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: 13ae03571c6ac90878cb9fdae56d33da4809f6f47e4f7dcc8fa14470b7bf9342 |
up2date-gnome-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: bb106e0433a358020e0a03fff96a758a7308b526ed62ab433501c9a7a30874db |
s390 | |
rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: f7b7e2f11efe1baf3d0dcd8b01580397d4d14dc99414e7f414f2dcf7ea4c306e |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.s390.rpm | SHA-256: 451d081d2fd23381c1c35d3c368190ee86a0d77114d317a9b904a5975c8a7204 |
up2date-gnome-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.s390.rpm | SHA-256: 3663b6f60cb01761c1c9b998d57c2418377b147a4a31cc0b42175ab6a0286b4f |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 4
SRPM | |
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rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.src.rpm | SHA-256: c68324eccfd90369947031882df582850b975f6b31daaf226652ce55e9524493 |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.src.rpm | SHA-256: c220d176dab844262d96affff7b2ceca724d35997f72aed6a4afd70799eecee2 |
ppc | |
rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: f7b7e2f11efe1baf3d0dcd8b01580397d4d14dc99414e7f414f2dcf7ea4c306e |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: 284d808edcc9de4a85606b75b077b26a88a6a6020c92304ef01ad991eba9e1b5 |
up2date-gnome-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: 47f6a723a95dcae621d3a786828077c36d825658ae815eba159329e1c19dab20 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian - Extended Update Support 4.8
SRPM | |
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rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.src.rpm | SHA-256: c68324eccfd90369947031882df582850b975f6b31daaf226652ce55e9524493 |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.src.rpm | SHA-256: c220d176dab844262d96affff7b2ceca724d35997f72aed6a4afd70799eecee2 |
ppc | |
rhnlib-2.1.4-14.el4_8.3.noarch.rpm | SHA-256: f7b7e2f11efe1baf3d0dcd8b01580397d4d14dc99414e7f414f2dcf7ea4c306e |
up2date-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: 284d808edcc9de4a85606b75b077b26a88a6a6020c92304ef01ad991eba9e1b5 |
up2date-gnome-4.8.1-33.el4_8.12.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: 47f6a723a95dcae621d3a786828077c36d825658ae815eba159329e1c19dab20 |
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