Subject: PSA-2026-00073-1: pvedaemon denial-of-service via QEMU guest agent file-read command
Advisory date: 2026-10-19
Packages: qemu-server
Details:
Insufficient hardening of the QEMU guest agent file-read handling allowed a malicious guest agent implementation in a VM to cause pvedaemon to allocate additional memory until it triggers an out-of-memory kill action by the kernel.
Subject: PSA-2026-00074-1: QEMU HMP: incomplete permissions checks for gpa2hpa/gpa2hva/i commands
Advisory date: 2026-10-19
Packages: qemu-server
Details:
The gpa2hpa/gpa2hva/i of QEMU's HMP interface were only requiring Sys.Modify privileges, instead of being restricted to root. These commands potentially allow leaking information about the memory layout of the QEMU process, or read memory from I/O ports, which might have security implications.