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.
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Vendor Workaround
If vhost inflight migration is not required, it can be disabled by omitting the inflight parameter from the vhost-user device configuration. This prevents the vulnerable VMState deserialization path from being reached on the destination. Environments that require vhost inflight migration for live migration of vhost-user devices cannot use this mitigation and should prioritize applying the fix.
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| Type | Values Removed | Values Added |
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | Qemu-kvm: vhost inflight migration vmstate integer type mismatch causes out-of-bounds access | |
| First Time appeared |
Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux Redhat enterprise Linux Nvidia Redhat openshift |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-681 | |
| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux_nvidia: cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 |
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Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux Redhat enterprise Linux Nvidia Redhat openshift |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2026-08-10T21:22:29.414Z
Reserved: 2026-04-16T11:09:18.538Z
Link: CVE-2026-6426
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CWE-681
Incorrect Conversion between Numeric Types