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Medium ALAS2-2026-4009 1 CVE

Moderate: qemu security update (Amazon Linux 2)

Published Oct 26, 2026 · Updated Oct 26, 2026

Summary

Package updates are available for Amazon Linux 2 that fix the following vulnerabilities: CVE-2026-81627: A flaw was found in QEMU. The VAPIC setup hypercall in hw/i386/vapic.c does not validate that the writable RAM alias remains within the option ROM window. A privileged guest user on a Q35/KVM machine can position this alias over locked SMRAM, bypassing chipset D_LCK protection and injecting code into System Management Mode memory. CVE-2026-65928: NOTE: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/work_items/3846 NOTE: Fixed by: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/370882d0869567e5f21b95229a763171e319d0db (v11.1.0-rc3) NOTE: Fixed by: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/e00b9c9193de00f5782cb919d91eb80d255017fe (v11.0.4) CVE-2026-63322: NOTE: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/work_items/3607 NOTE: Fixed by: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/4727cc883b7e81d2c30b9801af54482d65b84292 (v11.1.0-rc2) NOTE: Fixed by: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/95b9a1bf26fef7c44f4925f78ade7fa824ed5e76 (v11.0.4) CVE-2026-63320: Host-side AddressSanitizer heap-buffer-overflow READ in current QEMU master through the virtio-net-pci receive filtering path on q35. The crash is in receive_filter(). CVE-2026-63318: QEMU's 9pfs readonly check at line 2108-2109 tests mode & O_TRUNC and mode & O_APPEND against the raw 9P open mode byte. For the 9P2000.u protocol, mode uses 9P flag values (Otrunc=0x10, Oappend=0x80), but the check compares against Linux constants (O_TRUNC=0x200, O_APPEND=0x400). Since 0x10 & 0x200 = 0 and 0x80 & 0x400 = 0, both flags bypass the readonly guard. The mode is then correctly converted to host flags via omode_to_uflags(), so open() is called with O_TRUNC -- truncating host files on readonly shares. 9P2000.L is NOT affected (guest passes Linux flags directly, so the bit values match). CVE-2026-61476: NOTE: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/work_items/3875 NOTE: Fixed by: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/f404bf0e6504e0412a00ea64708f17d2a5e3f869 (v11.1.0-rc2) NOTE: Fixed by: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/a4abe1f1fa6f465b64fb400bea14c72bd5e32ac9 (v11.0.4) CVE-2026-50624: NOTE: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/work_items/3917 NOTE: Fixed by: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/0be94d8d9c28e6b7235b34133d057090fe93be6c (v11.1.0-rc2) NOTE: Fixed by: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/88a0e5e45b41d407cf9adf1f2cf6f20f394a578d (v11.0.4) CVE-2026-18054: NOTE: Fixed by: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/1f24066fc88d33455ee54a20f29994d9e69997ba (v11.1.0-rc3) NOTE: Fixed by: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/5fbd2fe1cc54259d045d00d4966aa2db1ba990d6 (v11.0.4)

Fixed packages 28

ReleasePackageFixed in
Amazon Linux · 2 ivshmem-tools 10:3.1.0-8.amzn2.0.28
Amazon Linux · 2 qemu 10:3.1.0-8.amzn2.0.28
Amazon Linux · 2 qemu-audio-alsa 10:3.1.0-8.amzn2.0.28
Amazon Linux · 2 qemu-audio-oss 10:3.1.0-8.amzn2.0.28
Amazon Linux · 2 qemu-audio-pa 10:3.1.0-8.amzn2.0.28
Amazon Linux · 2 qemu-audio-sdl 10:3.1.0-8.amzn2.0.28
Amazon Linux · 2 qemu-block-curl 10:3.1.0-8.amzn2.0.28
Amazon Linux · 2 qemu-block-dmg 10:3.1.0-8.amzn2.0.28
Amazon Linux · 2 qemu-block-iscsi 10:3.1.0-8.amzn2.0.28
Amazon Linux · 2 qemu-block-nfs 10:3.1.0-8.amzn2.0.28
Amazon Linux · 2 qemu-block-rbd 10:3.1.0-8.amzn2.0.28
Amazon Linux · 2 qemu-block-ssh 10:3.1.0-8.amzn2.0.28
Amazon Linux · 2 qemu-common 10:3.1.0-8.amzn2.0.28
Amazon Linux · 2 qemu-debuginfo 10:3.1.0-8.amzn2.0.28
Amazon Linux · 2 qemu-guest-agent 10:3.1.0-8.amzn2.0.28
Amazon Linux · 2 qemu-img 10:3.1.0-8.amzn2.0.28
Amazon Linux · 2 qemu-kvm 10:3.1.0-8.amzn2.0.28
Amazon Linux · 2 qemu-kvm-core 10:3.1.0-8.amzn2.0.28
Amazon Linux · 2 qemu-system-aarch64 10:3.1.0-8.amzn2.0.28
Amazon Linux · 2 qemu-system-aarch64-core 10:3.1.0-8.amzn2.0.28
Amazon Linux · 2 qemu-system-x86 10:3.1.0-8.amzn2.0.28
Amazon Linux · 2 qemu-system-x86-core 10:3.1.0-8.amzn2.0.28
Amazon Linux · 2 qemu-ui-curses 10:3.1.0-8.amzn2.0.28
Amazon Linux · 2 qemu-ui-gtk 10:3.1.0-8.amzn2.0.28
Amazon Linux · 2 qemu-ui-sdl 10:3.1.0-8.amzn2.0.28
Amazon Linux · 2 qemu-user 10:3.1.0-8.amzn2.0.28
Amazon Linux · 2 qemu-user-binfmt 10:3.1.0-8.amzn2.0.28
Amazon Linux · 2 qemu-user-static 10:3.1.0-8.amzn2.0.28

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-18054.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-50624.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-61476.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-63318.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-63320.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-63322.html
  • web
    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-65928.html
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    https://alas.aws.amazon.com/cve/html/CVE-2026-81627.html