{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2025-12-14T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "qemu-kvm: Unbounded allocation in virtio-crypto",
    "id" : "2423549",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2423549"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "draft"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-770",
  "details" : [ "A flaw was found in the virtio-crypto device of QEMU. A malicious guest operating system can exploit a missing length limit in the AKCIPHER path, leading to uncontrolled memory allocation. This can result in a denial of service (DoS) on the host system by causing the QEMU process to terminate unexpectedly.", "A flaw was found in the virtio-crypto device of QEMU. A malicious guest operating system can exploit a missing length limit in the AKCIPHER path, leading to uncontrolled memory allocation. This can result in a denial of service (DoS) on the host system by causing the QEMU process to terminate unexpectedly." ],
  "statement" : "Using the virtio-crypto device in RHEL is not supported and strongly discouraged. The virtio-crypto devices are also not supported in any other virtualization solution provided by Red Hat.",
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank James Nakamura <nakamurajames123@gmail.com> for reporting this issue.",
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "qemu-kvm",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "qemu-kvm",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "qemu-kvm",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "qemu-kvm-ma",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "virt:rhel/qemu-kvm",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "qemu-kvm",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "rhcos",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-14876\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-14876" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2025-14876",
  "csaw" : false
}