Oval Definition:oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20210711
Revision Date:2021-03-03Version:635
Title:RHSA-2021:0711: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security update (Important)
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: virtiofsd: potential privileged host device access from guest (CVE-2020-35517)

    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.
  • Family:unixClass:patch
    Status:Reference(s):CVE-2020-35517
    RHSA-2021:0711
    Platform(s):Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
    Product(s):
    Definition Synopsis
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux must be installed
  • OR Package Information
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 is installed
  • OR Red Hat CoreOS 4 is installed
  • AND
  • Module virt-devel:rhel is enabled
  • Module virt:rhel is enabled
  • BACK