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● CVE — Medium

CVE-2026-6426

DiscoveredAug 10, 2026UpdatedSep 18, 2026

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.

CVSS v3.1
4.4 MEDIUM
EPSS
0.39%
probability of exploitation in 30 days
CISA KEV
Not listed
no confirmed exploitation reported
News coverage
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Related IOCs
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CVSS v3.1 Detail
Attack VectorNETWORK
Attack ComplexityHIGH
Privileges RequiredHIGH
User InteractionNONE
ScopeUNCHANGED
ConfidentialityNONE
IntegrityNONE
AvailabilityHIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Connections
1 relationships
Timeline
disclosure → media coverage
Aug 10, 2026
Disclosure — published as a CVE record. · last revised by NVD Sep 18, 2026