Qemu-kvm: unbounded allocation in virtio-crypto_CVE-2025-14876

5.5 / 10

MEDIUM

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

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.

Basic Information

ID CVE-2025-14876

Source fedora

Published Feb 18, 2026 at 20:47

Affected Product

Version 7.1.0

Affected Versions 7.1.0

CWE Classification

CWE-770

References

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