Source: qemu X-Debbugs-CC: [email protected] Severity: important Tags: security
Hi, The following vulnerability was published for qemu. CVE-2026-81627[0]: | 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. https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/work_items/4206 Fixed by: https://gitlab.com/qemu-project/qemu/-/commit/d61c8a6fb7388486353aa267ba0d75b098f16662 (master) If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-81627 https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-81627 Please adjust the affected versions in the BTS as needed.
