CVE-2026-6426
Qemu-kvm: vhost inflight migration vmstate integer type mismatch causes out-of-bounds access
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.
| CWE | CWE-681 |
| Vendor | red hat |
| Product | red hat enterprise linux 10 |
| Published | Aug 10, 2026 |
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