Low: osinfo-db and libosinfo security and bug fix update
Security Advisory: Low
An update for osinfo-db, osinfo-db-tools, libosinfo, and gnome-boxes is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
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.
The osinfo-db package contains a database that provides information about operating systems and hypervisor platforms to facilitate the automated configuration and provisioning of new virtual machines.
The libosinfo packages provide a library that allows virtualization provisioning tools to determine the optimal device settings for a combination of hypervisor and operating system.
Security Fix(es):
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 8.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
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