Issued:

2023-05-09

Updated:

2023-05-09

RHSA-2023:2179 - Moderate: libguestfs-winsupport security update

Synopsis

Moderate: libguestfs-winsupport security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for libguestfs-winsupport is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The libguestfs-winsupport package adds support for Windows guests to libguestfs, a set of tools and libraries allowing users to access and modify virtual machine (VM) disk images.

Security Fix(es):

• ntfs-3g: heap-based buffer overflow in ntfsck (CVE-2021-46790)

• ntfs-3g: crafted NTFS image can cause heap exhaustion in ntfs_get_attribute_value (CVE-2022-30784)

• ntfs-3g: crafted NTFS image can cause a heap-based buffer overflow in ntfs_names_full_collate (CVE-2022-30786)

• ntfs-3g: crafted NTFS image can cause a heap-based buffer overflow in ntfs_mft_rec_alloc (CVE-2022-30788)

• ntfs-3g: crafted NTFS image can cause a heap-based buffer overflow in ntfs_check_log_client_array (CVE-2022-30789)

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 9.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• libguestfs-winsupport-9.2-1.el9.aarch64.rpm
• libguestfs-winsupport-9.2-1.el9.s390x.rpm
• libguestfs-winsupport-9.2-1.el9.src.rpm
• libguestfs-winsupport-9.2-1.el9.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 2093314
• This content is not included.BZ - 2093326
• This content is not included.BZ - 2093340
• This content is not included.BZ - 2093348
• This content is not included.BZ - 2093358

CVEs

• CVE-2021-46790
• CVE-2022-30784
• CVE-2022-30786
• CVE-2022-30788
• CVE-2022-30789

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.2_release_notes/index

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.