CVE-2026-2243

medium

Description

A flaw was found in QEMU. A specially crafted VMDK image could trigger an out-of-bounds read vulnerability, potentially leading to a 12-byte leak of sensitive information or a denial of service condition (DoS).

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2440934

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-2243

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-02-19

Updated: 2026-02-19

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.1

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L

Severity: Medium