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Low · 3.8 CVE-2026-13322 EUVD-2026-39599GHSA-6f2p-2qg2-qqchGO-2026-6912

Kubevirt: virt-handler-rhel9: kubevirt: unbounded virtio-serial readline in virt-handler causes oom denial of service

Published Jun 26, 2026 · Updated Jun 26, 2026 · Assigned by redhat

Description

A flaw was found in KubeVirt's downward metrics virtio-serial server. The server reads guest requests using textproto.Reader.ReadLine(), which buffers input indefinitely until a newline character is received, with no length limit or read deadline. A user with access to a VM guest that has the downward metrics virtio-serial device configured can write a continuous byte stream to the device, causing unbounded memory allocation in the virt-handler process until it is OOM-killed.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization 4 — —

Fixed in Linux distributions

Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 kubevirt +1 No fix yet —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling docker-machine-driver-harvester No fix yet —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
Go github.com/kubevirt/kubevirt >= 1.1.0-alpha.0, <= 1.10.0-rc.0 — GHSA-6f2p-2qg2-qqch
Go kubevirt.io/kubevirt >= 1.1.0-alpha.0 — GO-2026-6912

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