Issued at: 2026-03-18
Updated at: 2026-03-19
Synopsis
Moderate: virt:rhel and virt-devel:rhel security, bug fix, and enhancement update
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: hcd-ehci: DMA reentrancy issue leads to use-after-free (CVE-2021-3750)
* 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 Rocky Linux 8.9 Release Notes linked from the References section.