CVE-2026-86847
Dpdk: dpdk: guest can trigger infinite loop in vhost-crypto writeback chain cleanup
At a glance
- Severity
- MEDIUM 6.5
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.19 % · percentile 8 (2026-10-28)
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- redhat
- NVD status
- Awaiting Analysis
Description
A flaw was found in DPDK lib/vhost vhost-crypto. Write-back chain cleanup can follow an uninitialized next pointer when mapping a guest descriptor fails, causing the host vhost-crypto process to hang or crash.
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H | redhat |
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 6.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H | NVD · secalert@redhat.com (Secondary) |
Weaknesses (CWE)
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2026-101511
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2026-86847
Affected products
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-86847
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2529847
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |