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No, QEMU is a huge C program which can have its own vulnerabilities.

Usually QEMU runs heavily confined, but remote code execution in QEMU (remote = "from the guest") can be a first step towards exploiting a more serious local escalation via a kernel vulnerability. This second vulnerability can be in KVM or in any other part of the kernel.



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