RHSA-2021:0771: Red Hat Security Advisory: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security update

An update for the virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel modules is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Low. 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.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: assertion failure through usb_packet_unmap() in hw/usb/hcd-ehci.c (CVE-2020-25723) 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:
• CVE-2020-25723: QEMU: assertion failure through usb_packet_unmap() in hw/usb/hcd-ehci.c