RHSA-2019:2308 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: libguestfs-winsupport security update

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Severity

Low

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 7

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · August 6, 2019

Updated · June 28, 2026

Topic

An update for libguestfs-winsupport is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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: heap-based buffer overflow leads to local root privilege escalation (CVE-2019-9755)

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 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2019:2308 — Red Hat Security Advisory: libguestfs-winsupport security update | PulseLinux