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RedHat: RHSA-2022-0325-01 Low Severity: Virt:Av And Virt-Devel:Av Issue

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Calendar Grey January 31, 2022
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Red Hat released a low-severity advisory for updates on virt:av and virt-devel:av modules for bug fixes.
An update for the virt:av and virt-devel:av modules is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Virtualization 8.4

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

The Advanced Virtualization module provides the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM in environments managed by Red Hat products.
Security Fix(es):
* QEMU: block: fdc: null pointer dereference may lead to guest crash (CVE-2021-20196)
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.
Bug Fix(es):
* should not require (BZ#2034942)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat bug fix low severity Advanced Virtualization general security issue

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-20196 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#low

Package List

Advanced Virtualization for RHEL 8.4.0.EUS:
Source: SLOF-20200717-1.gite18ddad8.module+el8.4.0+8855+a9e237a9.src.rpm SLOF-20200717-1.gite18ddad8.module+el8.4.0+8855+a9e237a9.src.rpm hivex-1.3.18-21.module+el8.4.0+11609+2eba841a.src.rpm libguestfs-1.44.0-2.module+el8.4.0+10146+75917d2f.src.rpm libguestfs-winsupport-8.2-2.module+el8.4.0+12717+0b0da9ad.src.rpm libiscsi-1.18.0-8.module+el8.4.0+8855+a9e237a9.src.rpm libnbd-1.6.0-3.module+el8.4.0+9856+bbc47853.src.rpm libtpms-0.7.4-4.20201106git2452a24dab.module+el8.4.0+10596+32ba7df3.src.rpm libvirt-7.0.0-14.6.module+el8.4.0+13801+378af433.src.rpm libvirt-dbus-1.3.0-2.module+el8.4.0+8855+a9e237a9.src.rpm libvirt-python-7.0.0-1.module+el8.4.0+9469+2eaf72bc.src.rpm nbdkit-1.24.0-1.module+el8.4.0+9341+96cf2672.src.rpm netcf-0.2.8-12.module+el8.4.0+8855+a9e237a9.src.rpm perl-Sys-Virt-7.0.0-1.module+el8.4.0+9469+2eaf72bc.src.rpm python-pyvmomi-6.7.1-7.module+el8.4.0+8855+a9e237a9.src.rpm qemu-kvm-5.2.0-16.module+el8.4.0+13742+d494501f.14.src.rpm seabios-1.14.0-1.module+el8.4.0+8855+a9e237a9.src.rpm seabios-1.14.0-1.module+el8.4.0+8855+a9e237a9.src.rpm sgabios-0.20170427git-3.module+el8.4.0+8855+a9e237a9.src.rpm sgabios-0.20170427git-3.module+el8.4.0+8855+a9e237a9.src.rpm supermin-5.2.1-1.module+el8.4.0+9751+d56db353.src.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:0325-01
Product: Advanced Virtualization
Advisory URL: Issue date: 2022-01-31

Topic

An update for the virt:av and virt-devel:av modules is now available forRed Hat Enterprise Linux Advanced Virtualization 8.4.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 bug fix low severity Advanced Virtualization general security issue

Relevant Releases Architectures

Advanced Virtualization for RHEL 8.4.0.EUS - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1919210 - CVE-2021-20196 QEMU: block: fdc: null pointer dereference may lead to guest crash

2034942 - should not require [rhel-8.4.0.z]

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