High severity7.5NVD Advisory· Published Jul 28, 2026· Updated Jul 28, 2026
CVE-2026-42493
CVE-2026-42493
Description
Addressing certain issues, in particular related to operations which may take excessively long and therefore would need preemption, has turned out overly costly. Since alternatives (HVM/PVH: HAP, PV: shim) are commonly available, the decision was to deprecate the functionality, while still retaining it for people to use at their own (security) risk. Memory-wise small enough guests may still be okay to run.
Affected products
2Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
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