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Low ALSA-2022:7959 1 CVE

Low: guestfs-tools security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Published Nov 15, 2022 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

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 AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 9 guestfs-tools 1.48.2-5.el9
AlmaLinux · 9 virt-win-reg 1.48.2-5.el9

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2211
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2100862
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/9/ALSA-2022-7959.html