N/A - RHSA-2017:0861

Executive Summary

Summary
Title	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 Advanced Mission Critical (AMC) Retirement Notice

Informations
Name	RHSA-2017:0861	First vendor Publication	2017-04-03
Vendor	RedHat	Last vendor Modification	2017-04-03
Severity (Vendor)	N/A	Revision	01

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

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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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Detail

Problem Description:

This is the final notification for the retirement of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 Advanced Mission Critical (AMC). This notification applies only to those customers subscribed to the Advanced Mission Critical (AMC) channel for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Long Life (v. 5.6 server) - i386, ia64, x86_64

3. Description:

In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy, Advanced Mission Critical for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 was retired on March 31, 2017, and active support is no longer provided. Accordingly, Red Hat will no longer provide updated packages, including Critical Impact security patches or Urgent Priority bug fixes, for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 AMC after March 31, 2017. In addition, on-going technical support through Red Hat's Customer Experience and Engagement will be limited as described under "non-current minor releases" in the Knowledge Base article located here https://access.redhat.com/articles/64664 after this date.

We encourage customers to migrate from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.6 to a more recent version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux. As a benefit of the Red Hat subscription model, customers can use their active subscriptions to entitle any system on any currently supported Red Hat Enterprise Linux release.

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

4. Solution:

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

5. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Long Life (v. 5.6 server):

Source: redhat-release-5Server-5.6.0.13.src.rpm

i386: redhat-release-5Server-5.6.0.13.i386.rpm

ia64: redhat-release-5Server-5.6.0.13.ia64.rpm

x86_64: redhat-release-5Server-5.6.0.13.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/