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    "name": "[0/2] libvhost-user, libvduse: fix buffer overflow (CVE-2026-6425)",
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        "From": "Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>",
        "To": "qemu-devel@nongnu.org",
        "Cc": "Xie Yongji <xieyongji@bytedance.com>, qemu-stable@nongnu.org,\n \"Michael S. Tsirkin\" <mst@redhat.com>,\n Stefano Garzarella <sgarzare@redhat.com>",
        "Subject": "[PATCH 0/2] libvhost-user,\n libvduse: fix buffer overflow (CVE-2026-6425)",
        "Date": "Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:26:43 +0200",
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    "content": "A guest-triggerable buffer overflow was reported in libvhost-user.\nWhen an indirect descriptor table crosses a memory region boundary,\nvirtqueue_read_indirect_desc() falls back to a chunked copy, but\nthe destination pointer is a struct vring_desc pointer advanced by\na byte count, so it overflows the buffer.\n\nlibvduse has vduse_queue_read_indirect_desc() which was inspired by\nthe libvhost-user counterpart, so it has the same issue.\n\nStefano Garzarella (2):\n  libvhost-user: fix buffer overflow in virtqueue_read_indirect_desc()\n  libvduse: fix buffer overflow in vduse_queue_read_indirect_desc()\n\n subprojects/libvduse/libvduse.c           | 7 ++++---\n subprojects/libvhost-user/libvhost-user.c | 7 ++++---\n 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)"
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