Issued:
2015-07-22
Updated:
2015-07-22

RHBA-2015:1403 - libsemanage bug fix update

Synopsis

libsemanage bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated libsemanage packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The libsemanage library provides an API for the manipulation of SELinux binary policies. It is used by the checkpolicy compiler and similar tools, as well as by programs such as load_policy, which must perform specific transformations on binary policie, such as customizing policy boolean settings.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • The libsemanage test suite previously failed when attempting to test the libsemanage library. With this update, an error in the underlying code has been corrected, which allows the libsemanage test suite to work as expected. (BZ#591451)

  • Prior to this update, the semodule command failed with an error message when attempting to enable an already enabled module, or disable an already disabled module. This update adjusts the behavior of the command to succeed and not to produce error messages in the described scenarios. (BZ#872700)

Users of libsemanage 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.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/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 - Retired Extended Life Cycle Support6x86_64
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

  • libsemanage-static-2.0.43-5.1.el6.i686.rpm
  • libsemanage-devel-2.0.43-5.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • libsemanage-2.0.43-5.1.el6.src.rpm
  • libsemanage-debuginfo-2.0.43-5.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • libsemanage-static-2.0.43-5.1.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • libsemanage-2.0.43-5.1.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • libsemanage-2.0.43-5.1.el6.ppc.rpm
  • libsemanage-2.0.43-5.1.el6.s390x.rpm
  • libsemanage-2.0.43-5.1.el6.s390.rpm
  • libsemanage-2.0.43-5.1.el6.i686.rpm
  • libsemanage-debuginfo-2.0.43-5.1.el6.ppc.rpm
  • libsemanage-devel-2.0.43-5.1.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • libsemanage-debuginfo-2.0.43-5.1.el6.s390.rpm
  • libsemanage-devel-2.0.43-5.1.el6.s390.rpm
  • libsemanage-debuginfo-2.0.43-5.1.el6.i686.rpm
  • libsemanage-devel-2.0.43-5.1.el6.ppc.rpm
  • libsemanage-devel-2.0.43-5.1.el6.s390x.rpm
  • libsemanage-python-2.0.43-5.1.el6.s390x.rpm
  • libsemanage-2.0.43-5.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • libsemanage-devel-2.0.43-5.1.el6.i686.rpm
  • libsemanage-static-2.0.43-5.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • libsemanage-static-2.0.43-5.1.el6.s390x.rpm
  • libsemanage-debuginfo-2.0.43-5.1.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • libsemanage-python-2.0.43-5.1.el6.i686.rpm
  • libsemanage-python-2.0.43-5.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
  • libsemanage-python-2.0.43-5.1.el6.ppc64.rpm
  • libsemanage-debuginfo-2.0.43-5.1.el6.s390x.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

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