# CVE-2026-6426: Qemu-kvm: vhost inflight migration vmstate integer type mismatch causes out-of-bounds access

- Severity: CVSS 4.4 (Medium), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=no, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-08-10 · Updated: 2026-09-18

## Affected

- qemu-kvm: version range not reported
- qemu-kvm: version range not reported
- qemu-kvm: version range not reported
- qemu-kvm-ma: version range not reported
- virt:rhel/qemu-kvm: version range not reported
- qemu-kvm: version range not reported
- qemu-kvm: version range not reported
- openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-8: version range not reported
- openshift/ose-rhel-coreos-9: version range not reported

## 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.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on qemu-kvm, qemu-kvm-ma, virt:rhel/qemu-kvm or the other affected packages, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## References

- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-6426
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2513498

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