Issued:

2014-10-13

Updated:

2014-10-13

RHEA-2014:1593 - cryptsetup-luks enhancement update

Synopsis

cryptsetup-luks enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated cryptsetup-luks packages that add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The cryptsetup-luks packages provide a utility which allows users to set up encrypted devices with the Device Mapper and the dm-crypt target.

This update adds the following enhancement:

• FIPS products are now defined by the presence of the dracut-fips package in the system. During the initialization of a library, a cryptographic module is supposed to determine if the library is a FIPS product to reduce the amount of required integrity tests. For this purpose, a new constructor function has been added to the cryptsetup-libs library. The constructor detects if the /etc/system-fips file, which is a part of dracut-fips, exists in the system, and determines if a FIPS integrity test is needed. (BZ#1009707)

Users of cryptsetup-luks are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which add this enhancement.

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/site/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• cryptsetup-luks-libs-1.2.0-11.el6.i686.rpm
• cryptsetup-luks-1.2.0-11.el6.x86_64.rpm
• cryptsetup-luks-libs-1.2.0-11.el6.s390.rpm
• cryptsetup-luks-1.2.0-11.el6.i686.rpm
• cryptsetup-luks-devel-1.2.0-11.el6.i686.rpm
• cryptsetup-luks-devel-1.2.0-11.el6.ppc.rpm
• cryptsetup-luks-libs-1.2.0-11.el6.ppc64.rpm
• cryptsetup-luks-devel-1.2.0-11.el6.s390.rpm
• cryptsetup-luks-libs-1.2.0-11.el6.x86_64.rpm
• cryptsetup-luks-debuginfo-1.2.0-11.el6.x86_64.rpm
• cryptsetup-luks-debuginfo-1.2.0-11.el6.ppc.rpm
• cryptsetup-luks-debuginfo-1.2.0-11.el6.i686.rpm
• cryptsetup-luks-libs-1.2.0-11.el6.ppc.rpm
• cryptsetup-luks-devel-1.2.0-11.el6.ppc64.rpm
• cryptsetup-luks-1.2.0-11.el6.ppc64.rpm
• cryptsetup-luks-debuginfo-1.2.0-11.el6.s390x.rpm
• cryptsetup-luks-debuginfo-1.2.0-11.el6.s390.rpm
• cryptsetup-luks-devel-1.2.0-11.el6.s390x.rpm
• cryptsetup-luks-1.2.0-11.el6.s390x.rpm
• cryptsetup-luks-libs-1.2.0-11.el6.s390x.rpm
• cryptsetup-luks-1.2.0-11.el6.src.rpm
• cryptsetup-luks-debuginfo-1.2.0-11.el6.ppc64.rpm
• cryptsetup-luks-devel-1.2.0-11.el6.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1009707

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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