RHSA-2020:2472 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: virt:rhel security update

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · June 10, 2020

Updated · June 28, 2026

Topic

An update for the virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel modules is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.0 Update Services for SAP Solutions.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.

Description

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: block: iscsi: OOB heap access via an unexpected response of iSCSI Server (CVE-2020-1711)

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2020:2472 — Red Hat Security Advisory: virt:rhel security update | PulseLinux