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medium 5.5

CVE-2025-14876 json

Qemu-kvm: unbounded allocation in virtio-crypto

published 2026-02-18 8 mo ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2025-207825

cvss
5.5
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 4%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • qemu Debian 13 1:10.0.8+ds-0+deb13u1
  • qemu Debian 14 1:10.2.1+ds-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2025-14876

  • qemu Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 1:8.2.2+ds-0ubuntu1.13
  • qemu Ubuntu 25.10 1:10.1.0+ds-5ubuntu2.4

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2025-14876

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • qemu Linux Micro 6.2 10.0.8-160000.1.1
  • qemu SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP7, SLE Micro 5.5 7.1.0-150500.49.39.2
  • qemu Linux Micro 6.1 8.2.10-slfo.1.1_4.1
  • qemu Linux Micro 6.0 8.2.10-2.1
  • qemu SLE Module for Server Applications 15 SP7, SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP7, SLE Module for Basesystem 15 SP7 9.2.4-150700.3.17.1
  • qemu-linux-user SLE Module for Package Hub 15 SP7 9.2.4-150700.3.17.1
  • qemu openSUSE Leap 15.6 8.2.10-150600.3.46.1
  • qemu-linux-user openSUSE Leap 15.6 8.2.10-150600.3.46.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2026:2386-1SUSE-SU-2026:20693-1SUSE-SU-2026:0889-1SUSE-SU-2026:20666-1SUSE-SU-2026:20716-1SUSE-SU-2026:0832-1

  • qemu openSUSE Leap 16.0 10.0.8-160000.1.1
  • qemu-linux-user openSUSE Leap 16.0 10.0.8-160000.1.1
  • qemu openSUSE Tumbleweed 10.2.1-1.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2026:20357-1openSUSE-SU-2026:10265-1

  • qemu Azure Linux 3.0 9.1.0-3

azure linux advisories AZL-78174

Azure Linux vulnerability data, Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation, from https://github.com/microsoft/AzureLinuxVulnerabilityData via OSV, under the MIT licence; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. MIT

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2025-14876 updated cvss 5.5

qemu-kvm: Unbounded allocation in virtio-crypto

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 qemu-img, qemu-kvm, qemu-kvm-tools, qemu-guest-agent, qemu-guest-agent-win32 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 qemu-img, qemu-kvm, libcacard, qemu-img-ma, qemu-kvm-ma, qemu-kvm-tools, +5 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 qemu-img, qemu-kvm, qemu-kvm-core, qemu-kvm-tests, qemu-kvm-common, qemu-guest-agent, +8 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 qemu-img, qemu-kvm, qemu-kvm-core, qemu-kvm-tools, qemu-pr-helper, qemu-kvm-common, +16 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 qemu-kvm Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8, openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
8 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.15% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 4% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected products

  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
  • Red Hat Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
  • Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

References

Sources

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