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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.7 Medium

CVE-2026-48914

Qemu-kvm: heap buffer overflow in virtio-blk scsi request handling

Description

A flaw was found in QEMU's virtio-blk device. The issue arises because the device does not properly validate the size of input descriptors before writing data. A malicious guest with high privileges could exploit this vulnerability by submitting a malformed virtio-blk SCSI request, leading to an out-of-bounds write in the host heap memory and a potential denial of service (DoS) for the QEMU process.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

qemu

Default version status: unaffected

  • 1.1.0 to ≤ 11.0.1affected

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10

Default version status: affected

  • 18:10.1.0-16.el10_2.5 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

Default version status: affected

  • 17:10.1.0-17.el9_8.4 to < *unaffected

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

Default version status: unknown

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Default version status: unknown

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Default version status: unknown

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Default version status: affected

Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA 26

Default version status: affected

Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

Default version status: affected

Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

Default version status: affected

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