Topic: An update for the virt:8.1 and virt-devel:8.1 modules is now available for Advanced Virtualization for RHEL 8.1.1. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.

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Details: The Advanced Virtualization module provides the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM in environments managed by Red Hat products. Security Fix(es): * QEMU: block: iscsi: OOB heap access via an unexpected response of iSCSI Server (CVE-2020-1711) 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. Enhancement(s): * libnbd: new client library for nbd protocol implementation[rhel-8.1.1] (BZ#1802711) * New package request for RHEL 8: python-pyvmomi[rhel-8.1.1] (BZ#1802712)

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