CVE-2026-62434 (GCVE-0-2026-62434)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-07-28 12:33
Modified
2026-07-28 16:33
Severity ?
5.3 (Medium) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
Summary
A guest started with Populated on Demand enabled (PoD) can attempt to reclaim pages which aren't regular guest RAM. This can cause corruption of memory management state in Xen.
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