{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2026-02-20T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "qemu-kvm: virtio-snd: integer overflow leading to unbounded memory allocation",
    "id" : "2443789",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2443789"
  },
  "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-190",
  "details" : [ "An integer overflow vulnerability was found in the virtio-snd device via PCM_INFO requests from the guest. A malicious guest can provide out-of-bounds stream counts, potentially leading to unbounded memory allocation on the host and a denial of service condition." ],
  "statement" : "The `qemu-kvm` packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux are not affected by this CVE. The virtio-snd device is disabled at build-time in RHEL, effectively removing the attack surface.",
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Mingyuan Luo 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-2026-3196\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-3196" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2026-3196",
  "csaw" : false
}