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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 RHSA-2021-5238 Low: KVM Modules Security Patch

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Calendar Grey December 21, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat Enterprise Linux has issued a low-impact security update for KVM modules to improve stability and fix vulnerabilities. Apply updates promptly
An update for the virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel modules is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

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

Summary

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) offers a full virtualization solution for Linux on numerous hardware platforms. The virt:rhel module contains packages which provide user-space components used to run virtual machines using KVM. The packages also provide APIs for managing and interacting with the virtualized systems.
Security Fix(es):
* QEMU: off-by-one error in mode_sense_page() in hw/scsi/scsi-disk.c (CVE-2021-3930)
* QEMU: net: e1000: infinite loop while processing transmit descriptors(CVE-2021-20257)
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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux security patch low impact QEMU KVM modules virt development

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3930 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20257 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#low

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: SLOF-20191022-3.git899d9883.module+el8.3.0+6423+e4cb6418.src.rpm hivex-1.3.18-21.module+el8.5.0+10709+b3edb581.src.rpm libguestfs-1.40.2-28.module+el8.5.0+10717+67be7ac4.src.rpm libguestfs-winsupport-8.2-1.module+el8.3.0+6423+e4cb6418.src.rpm libiscsi-1.18.0-8.module+el8.1.0+4066+0f1aadab.src.rpm libnbd-1.2.2-1.module+el8.3.0+7353+9de0a3cc.src.rpm libvirt-6.0.0-37.module+el8.5.0+12162+40884dd2.src.rpm libvirt-dbus-1.3.0-2.module+el8.3.0+6423+e4cb6418.src.rpm libvirt-python-6.0.0-1.module+el8.3.0+6423+e4cb6418.src.rpm nbdkit-1.16.2-4.module+el8.3.0+6922+fd575af8.src.rpm netcf-0.2.8-12.module+el8.1.0+4066+0f1aadab.src.rpm perl-Sys-Virt-6.0.0-1.module+el8.3.0+6423+e4cb6418.src.rpm qemu-kvm-4.2.0-59.module+el8.5.0+13495+8166cdf8.1.src.rpm seabios-1.13.0-2.module+el8.3.0+7353+9de0a3cc.src.rpm sgabios-0.20170427git-3.module+el8.1.0+4066+0f1aadab.src.rpm supermin-5.1.19-10.module+el8.3.0+6423+e4cb6418.src.rpm
aarch64: hivex-1.3.18-21.module+el8.5.0+10709+b3edb581.aarch64.rpm hivex-debuginfo-1.3.18-21.module+el8.5.0+10709+b3edb581.aarch64.rpm hivex-debugsource-1.3.18-21.module+el8.5.0+10709+b3edb581.aarch64.rpm hivex-devel-1.3.18-21.module+el8.5.0+10709+b3edb581.aarch64.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:5238-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:5238
Issue date: 2021-12-21

Topic

An update for the virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel modules is now availablefor Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Low. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat Enterprise Linux security patch low impact QEMU KVM modules virt development

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) - aarch64, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1930087 - CVE-2021-20257 QEMU: net: e1000: infinite loop while processing transmit descriptors2020588 - CVE-2021-3930 QEMU: off-by-one error in mode_sense_page() in hw/scsi/scsi-disk.c

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