CVE-2021-20295

Summary

CVECVE-2021-20295
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-04-01 23:15:00 UTC
Updated2022-10-06 02:32:00 UTC
DescriptionIt 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Qemu Qemu All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2021-20295 QEMU Vulnerability in NetApp Products | NetApp Product Security CONFIRM security.netapp.com
Red Hat Customer Portal - Access to 24x7 support and knowledge MISC access.redhat.com
1944075 – (CVE-2021-20295) CVE-2021-20295 QEMU: Regression of CVE-2020-10756 fix in virt:rhel/qemu-kvm in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 MISC bugzilla.redhat.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 159139 Oracle Enterprise Linux Security Update for virt:ol and virt-devel:rhel (ELSA-2021-1064)
  • 239211 Red Hat Update for virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (RHSA-2021:1064)
  • 900807 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for qemu-kvm (9274)
  • 905209 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for qemu-kvm (9274-1)
  • 905845 Common Base Linux Mariner (CBL-Mariner) Security Update for qemu-kvm (9274-2)
  • 940373 AlmaLinux Security Update for virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (ALSA-2021:1064)
  • 960219 Rocky Linux Security Update for virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel (RLSA-2021:1064)
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