Advisoriesby IbisRed HatCVE-2026-81627
Red Hat QEMU. The VAPIC setup hypercall: out-of-bounds write
No fix yet
A flaw was found in QEMU. The VAPIC setup hypercall in hw/i386/vapic.c does not validate that the writable RAM alias remains within the option ROM window. A privileged guest user on a Q35/KVM machine can position this alias over locked SMRAM, bypassing chipset D_LCK protection and injecting code into System Management Mode memory.
Affected versions
| Package | Affected | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Product | all versions | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 Product | all versions | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Product | all versions | No fix yet |
| all versions | No fix yet | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 Product | all versions | No fix yet |
| all versions | No fix yet | |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Product | all versions | No fix yet |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux for NVIDIA 26 Product | all versions | No fix yet |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 Product | all versions | No fix yet |
| all versions | No fix yet | |
| Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 5 Product | all versions | No fix yet |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) Product | all versions | No fix yet |
Details and references
- CVSS 3.1
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Severity from
- the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
- Weakness
- CWE-787