CVE-2025-14876

MEDIUM SEVERITY

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Base Score

5.5 / 10

Vector String

                                        CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H                                    

Vulnerability Description

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.

Vulnerability Details

Published Date

February 18, 2026

Last Modified

February 19, 2026

CWE ID

CWE-770

Source

NVD

Vendor

Red Hat

Product

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

External References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2025-14876
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2423549

CVE-2025-14876

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