Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 security and bug fix advisory

Updated packages that resolve various issues are now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 Wallaby for Red Hat Enterprise Linux RHEL 9.2. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which...

openstack-nova-compute: Arbitrary Host File Overwrite via Unconstrained qemu-img Format Handling in OpenStack Nova

A flaw in OpenStack Nova’s interaction with the qemu-img utility allows an authenticated user to overwrite arbitrary files on the compute host. This occurs because Nova invokes qemu-img without strictly constraining the disk image format, enabling a malicious user to craft a QCOW2 header on a raw...

RHEL 9 : Red Hat OpenStack Platform 17.1 security advisory (Important) (RHSA-2026:66401)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2026:66401 advisory. Red Hat OpenStack Platform provides the facilities for building, deploying and monitoring a private or public infrastructure-as-a-service...

SUSE CVE-2026-63623

A flaw was found in libvirt. During storage volume clone or convert operations, newly created volume images were temporarily world-readable. This was caused by the qemu-img utility running with overly permissive file creation settings, allowing any local user to read the full guest disk contents...

openstack-nova-compute: Arbitrary Host File Overwrite via Unconstrained qemu-img Format Handling in OpenStack Nova

A flaw in OpenStack Nova’s interaction with the qemu-img utility allows an authenticated user to overwrite arbitrary files on the compute host. This occurs because Nova invokes qemu-img without strictly constraining the disk image format, enabling a malicious user to craft a QCOW2 header on a raw...

CVE-2026-63623

A flaw was found in libvirt. During storage volume clone or convert operations, newly created volume images were temporarily world-readable. This was caused by the qemu-img utility running with overly permissive file creation settings, allowing any local user to read the full guest disk contents...

DEBIAN-CVE-2026-63623

A flaw was found in libvirt. During storage volume clone or convert operations, newly created volume images were temporarily world-readable. This was caused by the qemu-img utility running with overly permissive file creation settings, allowing any local user to read the full guest disk contents...

AZL-95613 CVE-2026-63623 affecting package libvirt for versions less than 11.9.0-1

A flaw was found in libvirt. During storage volume clone or convert operations, newly created volume images were temporarily world-readable. This was caused by the qemu-img utility running with overly permissive file creation settings, allowing any local user to read the full guest disk contents...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-63623

A flaw was found in libvirt. During storage volume clone or convert operations, newly created volume images were temporarily world-readable. This was caused by the qemu-img utility running with overly permissive file creation settings, allowing any local user to read the full guest disk contents...

CVE-2026-63623

A flaw was found in libvirt. During storage volume clone or convert operations, newly created volume images were temporarily world-readable. This was caused by the qemu-img utility running with overly permissive file creation settings, allowing any local user to read the full guest disk contents...

CVE-2026-63623

A flaw was found in libvirt. During storage volume clone or convert operations, newly created volume images were temporarily world-readable. This was caused by the qemu-img utility running with overly permissive file creation settings, allowing any local user to read the full guest disk contents...

CVE-2026-63623 Libvirt: information disclosure via world-readable storage volume images during clone/convert

A flaw was found in libvirt. During storage volume clone or convert operations, newly created volume images were temporarily world-readable. This was caused by the qemu-img utility running with overly permissive file creation settings, allowing any local user to read the full guest disk contents...

CVE-2026-63623

CVE-2026-63623 affects libvirt during storage volume clone or convert operations, where qemu-img creates new volume images with overly permissive file permissions, temporarily making them world-readable and allowing local users to read the full guest disk contents. This could lead to sensitive in...

CVE-2026-63623

A flaw was found in libvirt. During storage volume clone or convert operations, newly created volume images were temporarily world-readable. This was caused by the qemu-img utility running with overly permissive file creation settings, allowing any local user to read the full guest disk contents...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-63623

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - A flaw was found in libvirt. During storage volume clone or convert operations, newly created volume images were temporarily world-readable. This was caused by...

OpenStack Cinder, Glance, and Nova contain Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The image parser in OpenStack Cinder prior to 7.0.2, and 8.0.0 and above, prior to 9.0.0; Glance prior to 14.00; and Nova prior to 12.0.4 does not properly limit qemu-img calls, which might allow attackers to cause a denial of service memory and disk consumption via a crafted disk image. This iss...

PYSEC-2026-871 OpenStack Cinder, Glance, and Nova contain Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

The image parser in OpenStack Cinder prior to 7.0.2, and 8.0.0 and above, prior to 9.0.0; Glance prior to 14.00; and Nova prior to 12.0.4 does not properly limit qemu-img calls, which might allow attackers to cause a denial of service memory and disk consumption via a crafted disk image. This iss...

RHEL 9 : Red Hat OpenStack Services on OpenShift 18.0.18 (openstack-nova) (RHSA-2026:7884)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2026:7884 advisory. OpenStack Compute nova is open source software designed to provision and manage large networks of virtual machines, creating a redundant and scalable...

OPENSUSE-SU-2026:20567-1 Security update for qemu

This update for qemu fixes the following issues: Update to version 10.0.9. Security issues fixed: - CVE-2026-3196: unbounded memory allocation and host denial-of-service via PCMINFO requests sent from the guest bsc1259079. - CVE-2026-3195: heap out-of-bounds write when reading input audio in the...

GHSA-M4F3-QP2W-GWH6 OpenStack Nova calls qemu-img without format restrictions for resize

An issue was discovered in OpenStack Nova before 30.2.2, 31 before 31.2.1, and 32 before 32.1.1. By writing a malicious QCOW header to a root or ephemeral disk and then triggering a resize, a user may convince Nova's Flat image backend to call qemu-img without a format restriction, resulting in a...