Local privilege escalation via RPC integer overflow
Published Aug 20, 2026 · Updated Aug 20, 2026
Integer overflow in libvirt in Red Hat Enterprise Linux allows local users to corrupt libvirtd memory via crafted NodeGetFreePages RPC arguments. The remoteDispatchNodeGetFreePages handler multiplies pages_len by cellCount as unsigned integers for both the REMOTE_NODE_MAX_CELLS limit check and result-buffer sizing, so wraparound can pass the check and allocate too little heap memory before the hypervisor driver writes NUMA page data. Reachability requires local access to libvirt's read-only Unix socket, and successful overwrite can crash the root daemon or provide a path to local privilege escalation.
Summary
What happened
Integer overflow in libvirt in Red Hat Enterprise Linux allows local users to corrupt libvirtd memory via crafted NodeGetFreePages RPC arguments. The remoteDispatchNodeGetFreePages handler multiplies pages_len by cellCount as unsigned integers for both the REMOTE_NODE_MAX_CELLS limit check and result-buffer sizing, so wraparound can pass the check and allocate too little heap memory before the hypervisor driver writes NUMA page data. Reachability requires local access to libvirt's read-only Unix socket, and successful overwrite can crash the root daemon or provide a path to local privilege escalation.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-18917
- Published
- Aug 20, 2026
- Updated
- Aug 20, 2026
- Vendor
- 389 Directory Server
- Product
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Classifications
- CWE-190, T1068
- Attack vector
- local
- Privileges
- authenticated
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- Aug 20, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Aug 20, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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