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Description

A type mismatch vulnerability was found in QEMU's vhost inflight migration VMState handling. The destination buffer size is stored as a uint64_t but read by the VMS_VBUFFER load path as a signed int32_t. On little-endian hosts, a crafted incoming migration state with bit 31 set causes the value to be interpreted as negative and then implicitly converted to a very large size_t, leading qemu_get_buffer() to copy migration-stream data beyond the bounds of the mmap-backed inflight region.

This can result in a crash of the QEMU process or memory corruption. Exploitation requires control of the migration producer or write access to the migration channel, combined with a destination configured to use vhost inflight migration.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
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 Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA 26 — —
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 — —
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 — —

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.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 qemu 1:11.1.2+ds-2 —
Debian 13 qemu No fix yet —
Debian 12 qemu No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 qemu +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS qemu +1 No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS qemu No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS qemu No fix yet —
Show 4 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu Pro 20.04 LTS qemu No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS qemu No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS qemu No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS qemu No fix yet —

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