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ALSA-2026:18772 Not scored

Moderate: qemu-kvm security update

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM. Security Fix(es): * qemu-kvm: VNC WebSocket handshake use-after-free (CVE-2025-11234) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinuxRelease Notes linked from the References section.

Exploit probability Not scored
Published May 19, 2026
Required by Not available
Last source change May 26, 2026

02 / AFFECTED SOFTWARE

Affected packages

AlmaLinux:9 qemu-guest-agent
AlmaLinux:9 qemu-img
AlmaLinux:9 qemu-kvm
AlmaLinux:9 qemu-kvm-audio-pa
AlmaLinux:9 qemu-kvm-block-blkio
AlmaLinux:9 qemu-kvm-block-curl
AlmaLinux:9 qemu-kvm-block-rbd
AlmaLinux:9 qemu-kvm-common
AlmaLinux:9 qemu-kvm-core
AlmaLinux:9 qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu
AlmaLinux:9 qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-ccw
AlmaLinux:9 qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-gpu-pci
AlmaLinux:9 qemu-kvm-device-display-virtio-vga
AlmaLinux:9 qemu-kvm-device-usb-host
AlmaLinux:9 qemu-kvm-device-usb-redirect
AlmaLinux:9 qemu-kvm-docs
AlmaLinux:9 qemu-kvm-tools
AlmaLinux:9 qemu-kvm-ui-egl-headless
AlmaLinux:9 qemu-kvm-ui-opengl
AlmaLinux:9 qemu-pr-helper

03 / CONNECTIONS

Connected vulnerabilities

04 / EVIDENCE

Source records

Open Source Vulnerabilities ALSA-2026:18772

Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) is a full virtualization solution for Linux on a variety of architectures. The qemu-kvm packages provide the user-space component for running virtual machines that use KVM. Security Fix(es): * qemu-kvm: VNC WebSocket handshake use-after-free (CVE-2025-11234) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section. Additional Changes: For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinuxRelease Notes linked from the References section.

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05 / REFERENCES

Further evidence