Executive Summary

Summary
Title Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Three-Month Retirement Notice
Informations
Name RHSA-2016:2997 First vendor Publication 2016-12-22
Vendor RedHat Last vendor Modification 2016-12-22
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision 01

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

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Cvss Impact Score N/A Attack Complexity N/A
Cvss Expoit Score N/A Authentication N/A
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Detail

Problem Description:

This is the Three-Month notification for the retirement of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. This notification applies only to those customers subscribed to the channel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server) - i386, ia64, ppc, s390x, x86_64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client) - i386, x86_64

3. Description:

In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy, support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 will be retired on March 31, 2017, at the end of Production Phase 3. Until that date, customers will continue to receive Critical impact security patches and selected Urgent priority bug fixes for RHEL 5.11 (the final RHEL 5 release). On that date, active support included with your RHEL Premium or Standard subscription will conclude. This means that customers will continue to have access to all previously released content. In addition, limited technical support will be available through Red Hat's Global Support Services as described in the Knowledge Base article available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/64664 (under "non-current minor release").

However, we recognize that some customers will wish to remain on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 even after the March 31, 2017 retirement date. To meet this customer requirement, Red Hat will offer customers the option to purchase the Extended Life Cycle Support (ELS) Add-On as an annually renewable subscription. This ELS Add-On provides customers with up to an additional three and a half (3.5) years of Critical impact security fixes and selected Urgent priority bug fixes for RHEL 5.11. RHEL 5 ELS coverage will conclude on November 30, 2020.

Note that the RHEL 5 ELS Add-On is available for the x86 (32- and 64-bit) architecture only. The RHEL 5 ELS Add-On is not available for the Itanium architecture.

To enjoy even more comprehensive product support, we encourage customers to migrate from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 to a more recent version. As a benefit of the Red Hat subscription, customers may use their active subscriptions to entitle any system on any currently supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.

Instructions for migrating from RHEL 5 to RHEL7 are available at https://access.redhat.com/articles/1211223. Red Hat also offers a Pre-upgrade Assistant tool to aid with the migration of RHEL 5 systems to RHEL 7. For more information about this tool, please see https://access.redhat.com/solutions/1468623.

Details of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux life cycle can be found here: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/

4. Solution:

This advisory contains an updated redhat-release package, that provides a copy of this end of life notice in the "/usr/share/doc/" directory.

5. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop (v. 5 client):

Source: redhat-release-5Client-5.11.0.7.src.rpm

i386: redhat-release-5Client-5.11.0.7.i386.rpm

x86_64: redhat-release-5Client-5.11.0.7.x86_64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux (v. 5 server):

Source: redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.7.src.rpm

i386: redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.7.i386.rpm

ia64: redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.7.ia64.rpm

ppc: redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.7.ppc.rpm

s390x: redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.7.s390x.rpm

x86_64: redhat-release-5Server-5.11.0.7.x86_64.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/

Original Source

Url : https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-2997.html

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Date Informations
2016-12-22 09:23:16
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