Issued:
2013-01-07
Updated:
2013-01-07

RHBA-2013:0065 - piranha bug fix update

Synopsis

piranha bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated piranha packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

Piranha provides high-availability and load balancing services for Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The piranha packages contains various tools to administer and configure the Linux Virtual Server (LVS), as well as the heartbeat and failover components. LVS is a dynamically-adjusted kernel routing mechanism that provides load balancing, primarily for Web and FTP servers.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • Previously, the lvsd daemon did not correctly identify the existence of a new virtual server when re-reading the configuration file. As a consequence, the lvsd daemon could terminate unexpectedly with a segmentation fault when the pulse service was reloaded. With this update, the lvsd daemon correctly determines if a virtual server has been added to the configuration file when the pulse service is reloaded. (BZ#786364)

  • Previously, the lvsd daemon exited if a nanny process encountered an error as a result of executing the ipvsadm command to add or remove a real server. If a nanny process attempted to delete a real server that was not defined for a virtual service, or if a nanny process attempted to add a real server that was already defined for a virtual service, nanny encountered an error from ipvsadm and exited abnormally. With this update, a nanny process does not exit if it fails to add or remove a real server. (BZ#739223)

All users of piranha are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_645x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_645ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_645ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_645i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) from RHUI5i386

Updated Packages

  • piranha-0.8.4-25.el5.i386.rpm
  • piranha-debuginfo-0.8.4-25.el5.ppc.rpm
  • piranha-0.8.4-25.el5.ppc.rpm
  • piranha-debuginfo-0.8.4-25.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • piranha-0.8.4-25.el5.ia64.rpm
  • piranha-0.8.4-25.el5.x86_64.rpm
  • piranha-debuginfo-0.8.4-25.el5.i386.rpm
  • piranha-debuginfo-0.8.4-25.el5.ia64.rpm
  • piranha-0.8.4-25.el5.src.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information