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Description

A flaw was found in the virtio-crypto device of QEMU. A malicious guest operating system can exploit a missing length limit in the AKCIPHER path, leading to uncontrolled memory allocation. This can result in a denial of service (DoS) on the host system by causing the QEMU process to terminate unexpectedly.

PUBLISHED Reserved 2025-12-18 | Published 2026-02-18 | Updated 2026-02-18 | Assigner fedora




MEDIUM: 5.5CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Problem types

Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Product status

Default status
unaffected

7.1.0 (semver)
affected

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unaffected

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unaffected

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unaffected

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unaffected

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unaffected

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unaffected

Default status
unaffected

Timeline

2025-12-18:Reported to Red Hat.
2025-12-14:Made public.

Credits

Red Hat would like to thank James Nakamura <nakamurajames123@gmail.com> for reporting this issue.

References

access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14876 vdb-entry

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2423549 (RHBZ#2423549) issue-tracking

cve.org (CVE-2025-14876)

nvd.nist.gov (CVE-2025-14876)

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