N/A - RHSA-2008:0521

Executive Summary

Summary
Title	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 - 1-Year End Of Life Notice

Informations
Name	RHSA-2008:0521	First vendor Publication	2008-06-03
Vendor	RedHat	Last vendor Modification	2008-06-03
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

Cvss vector :
Cvss Base Score	Not Defined	Attack Range	Not Defined
Cvss Impact Score	Not Defined	Attack Complexity	Not Defined
Cvss Expoit Score	Not Defined	Authentication	Not Defined
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Detail

Problem Description:

This is the 1-year notification of the End Of Life plans for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1 - i386, ia64 Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1 - ia64 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1 - i386 Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1 - i386

3. Description:

In accordance with the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Errata Support Policy, the 7 year life-cycle of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 will end on May 31, 2009.

After this date, Red Hat will discontinue the technical support services, bug fix, enhancement, and security errata updates for the following products:

* Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS 2.1 * Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES 2.1 * Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS 2.1 * Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2.1 * Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1

Customers still running production workloads on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1 are advised to begin planning the upgrade to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. Active subscribers of Red Hat Enterprise Linux already have access to all currently maintained versions of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, as part of their subscription.

Details of the Red Hat Enterprise Linux life-cycle can be found on the Red Hat website: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/

4. Solution:

This errata contains an updated redhat-release package, that adds a new file to "/usr/share/doc/", which contains this end of life notice.

5. Package List:

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS (Advanced Server) version 2.1 :

Source: ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/2.1AS/en/os/SRPMS/redhat-release-as-2.1AS-123.src.rpm ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/2.1AS/en/os/SRPMS/redhat-release-as-2.1AS-23.src.rpm

i386: redhat-release-as-2.1AS-23.i386.rpm

ia64: redhat-release-as-2.1AS-123.ia64.rpm

Red Hat Linux Advanced Workstation 2.1:

Source: ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/2.1AW/en/os/SRPMS/redhat-release-aw-2.1AW-23.src.rpm

ia64: redhat-release-aw-2.1AW-23.ia64.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux ES version 2.1:

Source: ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/2.1ES/en/os/SRPMS/redhat-release-es-2.1ES-23.src.rpm

i386: redhat-release-es-2.1ES-23.i386.rpm

Red Hat Enterprise Linux WS version 2.1:

Source: ftp://updates.redhat.com/enterprise/2.1WS/en/os/SRPMS/redhat-release-ws-2.1WS-23.src.rpm

i386: redhat-release-ws-2.1WS-23.i386.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://www.redhat.com/security/team/key/#package