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5.1 Medium

CVE-2026-2243 Qemu-kvm: heap buffer out-of-bounds read in vmdk compressed grain parsing

Description

A flaw was found in QEMU. A specially crafted VMDK image could trigger an out-of-bounds read vulnerability, potentially leading to a 12-byte leak of sensitive information or a denial of service condition (DoS).

CVSS 3.1 detail

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

Exploitable with local access to the machine, without an account and without any user action; the impact on data or service is limited.

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
Low
Integrity
None
Availability
Low

Affected products and versions

Product Affected versions Fixed in
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Versions not published
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Versions not published
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Versions not published
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Versions not published
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Versions not published
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Versions not published
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