Issued:

2023-10-30

Updated:

2023-10-30

RHSA-2023:6167 - Low: libguestfs-winsupport security update

Synopsis

Low: libguestfs-winsupport security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Low

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 Low. 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: buffer overflow issue in NTFS-3G can cause code execution via crafted metadata in an NTFS image (CVE-2022-40284)

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.

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-9.2-2.el9_2.s390x.rpm
• libguestfs-winsupport-9.2-2.el9_2.aarch64.rpm
• libguestfs-winsupport-9.2-2.el9_2.src.rpm
• libguestfs-winsupport-9.2-2.el9_2.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 2236130

CVEs

• CVE-2022-40284

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

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.