CVE-2025-14876 — Qemu-kvm: unbounded allocation in virtio-crypto
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 …
Published: 2026-02-18 · CVSS: 5.5 · CVSS 3.1
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.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7