SB2026030529 - SUSE update for qemu
Published: March 5, 2026
Breakdown by Severity
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Description
This security bulletin contains information about 2 secuirty vulnerabilities.
1) Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling (CVE-ID: CVE-2025-14876)
The vulnerability allows a malicious guest to perform a denial of service attack.
The vulnerability exists due to uncontrolled memory allocation in the virtio-crypto device in hw/virtio/virtio-crypto.c. A malicious guest can consume all available memory resources and terminate the QEMU process.
2) Off-by-one (CVE-ID: CVE-2026-0665)
The vulnerability allows a malicious guest to perform a denial of service attack.
The vulnerability exists due to an off-by-one error within the KVM Xen guest support in hw/i386/kvm/xen_evtchn.c. A malicious guest can trigger an off-by-one error and perform a denial of service attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.