RHBA-2019:2340 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for cloud-utils-growpart is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Description

The cloud-utils-growpart package provides the growpart script for growing a partition. It is primarily used in cloud images to grow the root partition during the first boot.

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Users of cloud-utils-growpart 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 Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 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 Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 7 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, big endian 7 ppc64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support for IBM Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1593451 - growpart fails when partition start sector is the same as partition size
• BZ - 1695091 - When growing GPT partitions use [start of next - 1] instead of [start of next] as the new end sector.

CVEs

(none)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/7.7_release_notes/index