A flaw was found in QEMU. This vulnerability allows a local attacker within a guest virtual machine to write data beyond its allocated memory. This occurs when cpuphysicalmemory_map() returns a shorter length than expected, leading to an out-of-bounds write. Successful exploitation could result in unauthorized access to guest memory or corruption of heap-allocated objects, potentially causing information disclosure, data integrity issues, or a denial of service.
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"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/3xxx/CVE-2026-3842.json",
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-787"
],
"cna_assigner": "fedora"
}