๐Ÿ” CVE Alert

CVE-2026-0665

MEDIUM 6.5

Qemu-kvm: heap off-by-one in kvm xen physdevop_map_pirq

CVSS Score
6.5
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th

An off-by-one error was found in QEMU's KVM Xen guest support. A malicious guest could use this flaw to trigger out-of-bounds heap accesses in the QEMU process via the emulated Xen physdev hypercall interface, leading to a denial of service or potential memory corruption.

CWE CWE-787
Published Feb 18, 2026
Last Updated Feb 18, 2026
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CVSS v3 Breakdown

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector
Local
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High

Affected Versions

Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9
All versions affected
Red Hat / Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4
All versions affected

References

NVD โ†— CVE.org โ†— EPSS Data โ†—
access.redhat.com: https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-0665 bugzilla.redhat.com: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2428640