CVE-2021-20295

Medium

Description

It was discovered that the update for the virt:rhel module in the RHSA-2020:4676 (https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4676) erratum released as part of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 failed to include the fix for the qemu-kvm component issue CVE-2020-10756, which was previously corrected in virt:rhel/qemu-kvm via erratum RHSA-2020:4059 (https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4059). CVE-2021-20295 was assigned to that Red Hat specific security regression. For more details about the original security issue CVE-2020-10756, refer to bug 1835986 or the CVE page: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10756.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.5
Exploit probability—
ProductQemu
PublishedApr 1, 2022
First seenApr 1, 2022

How to fix

Update
  • qemu qemu4.2.0-34 or later

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
qemu qemuv < 4.2.0-344.2.0-34

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