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Medium ALSA-2026:1831 1 CVE

Moderate: qemu-kvm security update

Published Feb 3, 2026 · Updated Oct 29, 2026

Summary

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM.

Security Fix(es):

* qemu-kvm: VNC WebSocket handshake use-after-free (CVE-2025-11234)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Fixed packages 20

ReleasePackageFixed in
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-guest-agent 18:10.0.0-14.el10_1.5.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-img 18:10.0.0-14.el10_1.5.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm 18:10.0.0-14.el10_1.5.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-audio-pa 18:10.0.0-14.el10_1.5.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-block-blkio 18:10.0.0-14.el10_1.5.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-block-curl 18:10.0.0-14.el10_1.5.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-block-rbd 18:10.0.0-14.el10_1.5.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-common 18:10.0.0-14.el10_1.5.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-core 18:10.0.0-14.el10_1.5.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu 18:10.0.0-14.el10_1.5.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-ccw 18:10.0.0-14.el10_1.5.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci 18:10.0.0-14.el10_1.5.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-vga 18:10.0.0-14.el10_1.5.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-device-usb-host 18:10.0.0-14.el10_1.5.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-device-usb-redirect 18:10.0.0-14.el10_1.5.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-docs 18:10.0.0-14.el10_1.5.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-tools 18:10.0.0-14.el10_1.5.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-ui-egl-headless 18:10.0.0-14.el10_1.5.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-kvm-ui-opengl 18:10.0.0-14.el10_1.5.alma.1
AlmaLinux · 10 qemu-pr-helper 18:10.0.0-14.el10_1.5.alma.1

Vulnerabilities 1

References

  • report
    https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-11234
  • report
    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/2401209
  • advisory
    https://errata.almalinux.org/10/ALSA-2026-1831.html