RHSA-2021:2737 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: RHV-H security update (redhat-virtualization-host) 4.3.17

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 7

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · July 21, 2021

Updated · August 14, 2026

Topic

An update for redhat-release-virtualization-host and redhat-virtualization-host is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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

The redhat-virtualization-host packages provide the Red Hat Virtualization Host. These packages include redhat-release-virtualization-host. Red Hat Virtualization Hosts (RHVH) are installed using a special build of Red Hat Enterprise Linux with only the packages required to host virtual machines. RHVH features a Cockpit user interface for monitoring the host's resources and performing administrative tasks.

Security Fix(es):

  • kernel: size_t-to-int conversion vulnerability in the filesystem layer (CVE-2021-33909)

  • kernel: use-after-free in net/bluetooth/hci_event.c when destroying an hci_chan (CVE-2021-33034)

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-2021:2737 — Red Hat Security Advisory: RHV-H security update (redhat-virtualization-host) 4.3.17 | PulseLinux