RHSA-2022:7959 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: guestfs-tools security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Severity
LowRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · November 15, 2022
Updated · June 28, 2026
Topic
An update for guestfs-tools 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
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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.