Is kvm-ioctls safe to use?

kvm-ioctls has 2 known vulnerabilities on the latest version (0.12.1). DepScope rates its health at 62/100 (moderate risk).

What is the latest version of kvm-ioctls?

The latest version of kvm-ioctls is 0.12.1, released 2025-10-29.

Yes. kvm-ioctls has 2 known vulnerabilities. See depscope.dev/pkg/cargo/kvm-ioctls for details.

No, kvm-ioctls is actively maintained. Latest release: 0.12.1 (2025-10-29).

Popular alternatives to kvm-ioctls in Cargo include: hashbrown, getrandom, windows-sys, syn, rand_core.

kvm-ioctls is licensed under Apache-2.0 OR MIT.

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Safe wrappers over KVM ioctls

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Health

safe to use

[email protected] is safe to use (health: 62/100)

Update to >= 0.19.1 to fix known vulnerabilities

Health breakdown0 – 100

10/25

maintenance

14/20

popularity

23/25

security

12/15

maturity

3/15

community

Vulnerabilities

1 medium1 low

Advisories (2)

Severity	ID	Summary	Fixed in
medium	RUSTSEC-2024-0428	Undefined behaviour in `kvm_ioctls::ioctls::vm::VmFd::create_device`	0.19.1
unknown	GHSA-3qx8-rv27-j6gp	Undefined behaviour in `kvm_ioctls::ioctls::vm::VmFd::create_device`	0.19.1

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