RHBA-2015:2423 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An updated libguests-winsupport package that fixes several bugs and adds various enhancements is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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.

The libguests-winsupport packages have been upgraded to upstream version 7.2, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#1240277)

This update also fixes the following bug:

• Due to conflicting files, it was previously not possible to install libguestfs-winsupport together with the ntfs-3g package. With this update, libguestfs-winsupport has been modified not to contain the conflicting files. As a result, libguestfs-winsupport and ntfs-3g can be installed together as expected. (BZ#1190501)

In addition, this update adds the following enhancement:

• With this update, libguests-winsupport supports the 64-bit ARM architecture, which allows libguestfs to support Windows images on NTFS file systems. (BZ#1221583)

Users of libguests-winsupport are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which fixes these bugs and adds these enhancements.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 7.3 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Update Services for SAP Solutions 7.3 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1190501 - libguestfs-winsupport conflicts with ntfs-3g from EPEL
• BZ - 1221583 - [RFE]Add support for ntfs and Windows images by building the libguestfs-winsupport for aarch64
• BZ - 1240277 - Rebase libguestfs-winsupport in RHEL 7.2

CVEs

(none)

References

• http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#normal