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Medium 6.5Published Oct 14, 2026
CVE-2026-86566Dpdk: dpdk: guest with runt rx descriptors underflows copy length in vhost enqueue (split and packed rings)
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A flaw was found in DPDK lib/vhost. A guest with runt RX descriptors can underflow the copy length in vhost enqueue, causing a denial of service in a shared vhost backend such as OVS-DPDK.
- CVSS
- 6.5 MEDIUM (v3.1, CNA)CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-191
- Known exploited
- Not in CISA's KEV catalog
- EPSS (exploitation in the next 30 days)
- Not loaded for this CVE
- Assigned by
- redhat
- NVD analysis
- Awaiting Analysis
- Record last updated
- Oct 14, 2026
- First seen by InfoSec Signals
- Oct 14, 2026
Affected products
Red Hat Fast Datapath for RHEL 10 redhat:enterprise_linux | 10 | CNA record |
Red Hat Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4 redhat:openshift | 4 | CNA record |
Red Hat Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13 (Queens) redhat:openstack | 13 | CNA record |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-86566vdb-entry, x-refsource-redhat
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2529684issue-tracking, x-refsource-redhat
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