SECURITY: Fedora 34 Update: libguestfs-1.45.7-2.fc34
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2021-c0235d9d79
2021-09-04 19:31:30.714719
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Name : libguestfs
Product : Fedora 34
Version : 1.45.7
Release : 2.fc34
URL : http://libguestfs.org/
Summary : Access and modify virtual machine disk images
Description :
Libguestfs is a library for accessing and modifying virtual machine
disk images. http://libguestfs.org
Libguestfs uses Linux kernel and qemu code, and can access any type of
guest filesystem that Linux and qemu can, including but not limited
to: ext2/3/4, btrfs, FAT and NTFS, LVM, many different disk partition
schemes, qcow, qcow2, vmdk.
For enhanced features, install:
libguestfs-forensics adds filesystem forensics support
libguestfs-gfs2 adds Global Filesystem (GFS2) support
libguestfs-hfsplus adds HFS+ (Mac filesystem) support
libguestfs-inspect-icons adds support for inspecting guest icons
libguestfs-rescue enhances virt-rescue shell with more tools
libguestfs-rsync rsync to/from guest filesystems
libguestfs-ufs adds UFS (BSD) support
libguestfs-xfs adds XFS support
libguestfs-zfs adds ZFS support
For developers:
libguestfs-devel C/C++ header files and library
Language bindings:
libguestfs-gobject-devel GObject bindings and GObject Introspection
lua-guestfs Lua bindings
ocaml-libguestfs-devel OCaml bindings
perl-Sys-Guestfs Perl bindings
php-libguestfs PHP bindings
python3-libguestfs Python 3 bindings
ruby-libguestfs Ruby bindings
libguestfs-vala Vala language bindings
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Update Information:
Update NTFS-3G to 2021.8.22 to fix multiple CVEs ---- New upstream development
version 1.45.7. ---- Upstream patch to work with qemu 6.1 (RHBZ#1998820)
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ChangeLog:
* Tue Aug 31 2021 Richard W.M. Jones - 1:1.45.7-2
- Rebuild for updated ntfs-3g CVE (RHBZ#1999788)
* Tue Aug 31 2021 Richard W.M. Jones - 1:1.45.7-1
- New upstream development version 1.45.7.
- Fix to work with qemu 6.1 (RHBZ#1998820)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #1998820 - libguestfs breaks with qemu 6.1 with error "Backing file specified without backing format"
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1998820
[ 2 ] Bug #1999788 - ntfs-3g: Multiple buffer overflows in all versions [fedora-all]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1999788
[ 3 ] Bug #1999869 - ntfs-3g-2021.8.22 is available
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1999869
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This update can be installed with the "dnf" update program. Use
su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-c0235d9d79' at the command
line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at
http://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html#upgrade-command-label
All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
A libguestfs security update has been released for Fedora 34.