Issued at: 2026-08-24
Updated at: 2026-08-24
Advisory content derived from Red Hat RHSA-2026:58571, © Red Hat, Inc., used under CC BY 4.0, with modifications.
Synopsis
Moderate: qemu-kvm security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Description
Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM.
Security Fix(es):
* qemu-kvm: Heap buffer overflow in virtio-blk SCSI request handling (CVE-2026-48914)
Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):
* qemu-kvm hung during drain after double pause [rhel-10.2.z] (JIRA:Rocky Linux-190702)
* qemu-img create/convert fails on target block device with 4k sector size [rhel-10.2.z] (JIRA:Rocky Linux-207389)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.