Issued:
2018-10-30
Updated:
2018-10-30

RHBA-2018:3072 - Bug Fix Advisory

Synopsis

qemu-guest-agent bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

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Topic

An update for qemu-guest-agent is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The QEMU Guest Agent provides access to a system-level agent via standard QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP) commands.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.6 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Users of qemu-guest-agent 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 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 7 aarch64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7 ppc64le
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z (Structure A) 7 s390x

Fixes

  • BZ - 1436976 - After executing with a non-existing mountpoint, 'virsh domfsfreeze' can not work again
  • BZ - 1562218 - Rebase qemu-guest-agent for RHEL-7.6
  • BZ - 1567041 - qemu-guest-agent does not parse PCI bridge links in "build_guest_fsinfo_for_real_device" (q35)
  • BZ - 1569013 - Backport some features to 2.8 in RHEL 7.5

CVEs

(none)

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7

SRPM
qemu-guest-agent-2.12.0-2.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 8c1a525bbc32e889076d212adc8aff65b558c7a995e892d9d3c59399a4d40d22
x86_64
qemu-guest-agent-2.12.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 0767196585bc7936521a5e38cc09fd3349c237db9ca52525bffbd3e773151491
qemu-guest-agent-debuginfo-2.12.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c5b414672ad9ff89359285354484c834aabb874911c58bbaae67ca3ae1d1f4d7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 7

SRPM
qemu-guest-agent-2.12.0-2.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 8c1a525bbc32e889076d212adc8aff65b558c7a995e892d9d3c59399a4d40d22
x86_64
qemu-guest-agent-2.12.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 0767196585bc7936521a5e38cc09fd3349c237db9ca52525bffbd3e773151491
qemu-guest-agent-debuginfo-2.12.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c5b414672ad9ff89359285354484c834aabb874911c58bbaae67ca3ae1d1f4d7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 7

SRPM
qemu-guest-agent-2.12.0-2.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 8c1a525bbc32e889076d212adc8aff65b558c7a995e892d9d3c59399a4d40d22
x86_64
qemu-guest-agent-2.12.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 0767196585bc7936521a5e38cc09fd3349c237db9ca52525bffbd3e773151491
qemu-guest-agent-debuginfo-2.12.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c5b414672ad9ff89359285354484c834aabb874911c58bbaae67ca3ae1d1f4d7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 7

SRPM
qemu-guest-agent-2.12.0-2.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 8c1a525bbc32e889076d212adc8aff65b558c7a995e892d9d3c59399a4d40d22
s390x
qemu-guest-agent-2.12.0-2.el7.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 249c46eac65287dbd4aa8e5076b295b9f7dd6703b3942123c486808c41ef3c60
qemu-guest-agent-debuginfo-2.12.0-2.el7.s390x.rpm SHA-256: e25131ae4310c817edca621d348d5d2f604ca6e39b45d28b93b3fae75b61609c

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 7

SRPM
qemu-guest-agent-2.12.0-2.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 8c1a525bbc32e889076d212adc8aff65b558c7a995e892d9d3c59399a4d40d22
ppc64
qemu-guest-agent-2.12.0-2.el7.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 2def6b757cd9263260951629edd5264d4a3230f235299ac669a314f995ba9b2e
qemu-guest-agent-debuginfo-2.12.0-2.el7.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: c53e482a9f6eba1fd5ed3f2984d79fc2d0c1debd1db5c6ac652e759e410e92c4

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 7

SRPM
qemu-guest-agent-2.12.0-2.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 8c1a525bbc32e889076d212adc8aff65b558c7a995e892d9d3c59399a4d40d22
x86_64
qemu-guest-agent-2.12.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 0767196585bc7936521a5e38cc09fd3349c237db9ca52525bffbd3e773151491
qemu-guest-agent-debuginfo-2.12.0-2.el7.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: c5b414672ad9ff89359285354484c834aabb874911c58bbaae67ca3ae1d1f4d7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7

SRPM
qemu-guest-agent-2.12.0-2.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 8c1a525bbc32e889076d212adc8aff65b558c7a995e892d9d3c59399a4d40d22
ppc64le
qemu-guest-agent-2.12.0-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 03b07874b10a949c2f7d99b2b1e14c2e164f44ac1a807c1a547d1bf9e859b76c
qemu-guest-agent-debuginfo-2.12.0-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 24800ada4842b8d62dabd8c6fdac42bd0850911897586dee70787524f1bee322

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 7

SRPM
qemu-guest-agent-2.12.0-2.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 8c1a525bbc32e889076d212adc8aff65b558c7a995e892d9d3c59399a4d40d22
aarch64
qemu-guest-agent-2.12.0-2.el7.aarch64.rpm SHA-256: 31fd895ec15895c844a0ed5e6af00d6e5bf6f4beb4e2b64243eedef8f2dded76
qemu-guest-agent-debuginfo-2.12.0-2.el7.aarch64.rpm SHA-256: 286f257224e926f31457bd71e92e151a03a474c97086e5c8b63186cf59f3afca

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7

SRPM
qemu-guest-agent-2.12.0-2.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 8c1a525bbc32e889076d212adc8aff65b558c7a995e892d9d3c59399a4d40d22
ppc64le
qemu-guest-agent-2.12.0-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 03b07874b10a949c2f7d99b2b1e14c2e164f44ac1a807c1a547d1bf9e859b76c
qemu-guest-agent-debuginfo-2.12.0-2.el7.ppc64le.rpm SHA-256: 24800ada4842b8d62dabd8c6fdac42bd0850911897586dee70787524f1bee322

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM System z (Structure A) 7

SRPM
qemu-guest-agent-2.12.0-2.el7.src.rpm SHA-256: 8c1a525bbc32e889076d212adc8aff65b558c7a995e892d9d3c59399a4d40d22
s390x
qemu-guest-agent-2.12.0-2.el7.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 249c46eac65287dbd4aa8e5076b295b9f7dd6703b3942123c486808c41ef3c60
qemu-guest-agent-debuginfo-2.12.0-2.el7.s390x.rpm SHA-256: e25131ae4310c817edca621d348d5d2f604ca6e39b45d28b93b3fae75b61609c

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