RHBA-2016:0762 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for libguestfs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8.

Description

The libguestfs packages contain a library, which is used for accessing and modifying virtual machine (VM) disk images.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 Release Notes and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8 Technical Notes linked from the References section.

Users of libguestfs are advised to upgrade to these updated packages.

Solution

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

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support Extension 6 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1164729 - set-label can only set <=63 bytes for btrfs and ntfs filesystem which not meet the help message. Also for btrfs and ntfs it should give a warning message when the length exceed the limited length
• BZ - 1216298 - 'inspect-get-icon' fails to get the icon form the rhel7.1 image
• BZ - 1216305 - virt-inspector fails to detect the rhel7 images
• BZ - 1218934 - virt-sparsify: read all the output from 'qemu-img --help'
• BZ - 1229305 - virt-sysprep at cleanup deletes /var/spool/at/.SEQ which results in failing at
• BZ - 1293276 - guestfish can not ll a symbolic link dir or edit a file in it
• BZ - 1294956 - set-label returns wrong error message when set the ext3/ext4 filesystem label

CVEs

(none)

References

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