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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RHSA-2022:7959-01 Low: Guestfs-Tools DoS

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Calendar Grey November 15, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat issued a notice concerning guestfs-tools featuring a minor security update for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.
An update for guestfs-tools is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

guestfs-tools is a set of tools that can be used to make batch configuration changes to guests, get disk used/free statistics, perform backups and guest clones, change registry/UUID/hostname info, build guests from scratch, and much more.
Security Fix(es):
* libguestfs: Buffer overflow in get_keys leads to DoS (CVE-2022-2211)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat buffer overflow bug fix DoS low severity guestfs-tools

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2211 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#low https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.1_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9):
Source: guestfs-tools-1.48.2-5.el9.src.rpm
aarch64: guestfs-tools-1.48.2-5.el9.aarch64.rpm guestfs-tools-debuginfo-1.48.2-5.el9.aarch64.rpm guestfs-tools-debugsource-1.48.2-5.el9.aarch64.rpm
noarch: virt-win-reg-1.48.2-5.el9.noarch.rpm
s390x: guestfs-tools-1.48.2-5.el9.s390x.rpm guestfs-tools-debuginfo-1.48.2-5.el9.s390x.rpm guestfs-tools-debugsource-1.48.2-5.el9.s390x.rpm
x86_64: guestfs-tools-1.48.2-5.el9.x86_64.rpm guestfs-tools-debuginfo-1.48.2-5.el9.x86_64.rpm guestfs-tools-debugsource-1.48.2-5.el9.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


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:7959-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:7959
Issue date: 2022-11-15

Topic

An update for guestfs-tools is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux9.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat buffer overflow bug fix DoS low severity guestfs-tools

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) - aarch64, noarch, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2059286 - RFE: Rebase guestfs-tools to 1.48 in RHEL 9.1

2072493 - [RFE] Request to add lvm system.devices cleanup operation to virt-sysprep

2075718 - Having to use "--selinux-relabel" is not intuitive given Red Hat products default to selinux enabled.

2089748 - Removal of "--selinux-relabel" option breaks existing scripts

2100862 - CVE-2022-2211 libguestfs: Buffer overflow in get_keys leads to DoS

2106286 - virt-sysprep: make an effort to support LUKS on LV

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