rhsa-2023_6168
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat
Published
2023-10-30 08:56
Modified
2024-11-15 13:40
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: libguestfs-winsupport security update

Notes

Topic
An update for libguestfs-winsupport is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 Extended Update Support. 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.
Details
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.
Terms of Use
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