CVE-2025-14876 – Qemu-kvm: unbounded allocation in virtio-crypto

CVE ID : CVE-2025-14876

Published : Feb. 18, 2026, 8:47 p.m. | 12 minutes ago

Description : 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.

Severity: 5.5 | MEDIUM

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