Issued:
2013-02-20
Updated:
2013-02-20

RHBA-2013:0320 - certmonger bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

certmonger bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated certmonger packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The certmonger daemon monitors certificates which have been registered with it, and as a certificate's not-valid-after date approaches, the daemon can optionally attempt to obtain a fresh certificate from a supported CA.

The certmonger packages have been upgraded to upstream version 0.61, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#827611)

This update also fixes the following bugs:

  • When certmonger was set up to not attempt to obtain a new certificate and the certificate's valid remaining time crossed a configured time to live (TTL) threshold, certmonger warned of a certificate's impending not-valid-after date. Certmonger then immediately logged the warning again, and continued to do so indefinitely, causing the /var/log/messages file to fill up with warnings. This bug has been fixed and certmonger returns a warning again only when another configured TTL threshold is crossed or the service is restarted. (BZ#810016)

  • When certmonger attempts to save a certificate to an NSS database, it necessarily opens that database for writing. Previously, if any other process, including any other certmonger tasks that could require access to that database, had the database open for writing, that database could become corrupted. This update backports changes from later versions of certmonger which change its behavior. Now, actions that could result in database modifications are only performed one at a time. (BZ#893611)

All users of certmonger are advised to upgrade to these updated packages which fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

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 for Scientific Computing6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian6ppc64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension6i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems)6s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop6i386

Updated Packages

  • certmonger-debuginfo-0.61-3.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • certmonger-debuginfo-0.61-3.el6.s390x.rpm
  • certmonger-0.61-3.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • certmonger-0.61-3.el6.src.rpm
  • certmonger-0.61-3.el6.s390x.rpm
  • certmonger-debuginfo-0.61-3.el6.i686.rpm
  • certmonger-0.61-3.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • certmonger-0.61-3.el6.i686.rpm
  • certmonger-debuginfo-0.61-3.el6.ppc64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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Additional information