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.
Problem types
Product status
1.1.0 (semver)
Timeline
| 2026-06-12: | Reported to Red Hat. |
| 2026-05-26: | Made public. |
Credits
Red Hat would like to thank Feifan Qian <bea1e@proton.me> for reporting this issue.
References
access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-48914
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2488283 (RHBZ#2488283)
lore.kernel.org/...0526154957.1741622-1-stefanha@redhat.com/