PSA-2026-00073: Proxmox Virtual Environment: pvedaemon denial-of-service via QEMU guest agent file-read command
This Proxmox advisory covers a security issue in Proxmox Virtual Environment.
Key facts
- Fixed in
- qemu-server 9.2.11
- Advisory id
- PSA-2026-00073
- Source published
- Listed by VulniPulse
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Affected products & platforms
Description
Insufficient hardening of the QEMU guest agent file-read handling allowed a malicious guest agent implementation in a VM to cause pvedaemon to allocate additional memory until it triggers an out-of-memory kill action by the kernel. This issue was privately reported by Martin Vlach /.
Packages: qemu-server.
Affected product named by the advisory: Proxmox Virtual Environment.
Text from the source record.
Fix and mitigation
Upgrade to a fixed release named by Proxmox:
- qemu-server 9.2.11
Vendor guidance
- Update to the fixed package versions: qemu-server >= 9.2.11.
End-of-life dates for Proxmox VE
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