RHSA-2023:6980 — Security Advisory
Red Hat Security Advisory: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
Products
Official CSAF product identity
Published · November 15, 2023
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.
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: hcd-ehci: DMA reentrancy issue leads to use-after-free (CVE-2021-3750)
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QEMU: net: triggerable assertion due to race condition in hot-unplug (CVE-2023-3301)
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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.