RHSA-2021:3061 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security and bug fix update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · August 11, 2021
Updated · November 2, 2026
Topic
An update for the virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel modules is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. 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):
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QEMU: msix: OOB access during mmio operations may lead to DoS (CVE-2020-13754)
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hivex: Buffer overflow when provided invalid node key length (CVE-2021-3504)
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QEMU: net: an assert failure via eth_get_gso_type (CVE-2020-27617)
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QEMU: net: infinite loop in loopback mode may lead to stack overflow (CVE-2021-3416)
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qemu: out-of-bound heap buffer access via an interrupt ID field (CVE-2021-20221)
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):
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cannot restart default network and firewalld: iptables: No chain/target/match by that name. (BZ#1958301)
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RHEL8.4 Nightly[0322] - KVM guest fails to find zipl boot menu index (qemu-kvm) (BZ#1975679)