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.
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| Description | 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. | |
| Title | Dpdk: dpdk: guest with runt rx descriptors underflows copy length in vhost enqueue (split and packed rings) | |
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Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux Redhat openshift Redhat openstack |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-191 | |
| CPEs | cpe:/a:redhat:openshift:4 cpe:/a:redhat:openstack:13 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:10::fastdatapath cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8::fastdatapath cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9 cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:9::fastdatapath |
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published: 2026-10-14T17:52:01.224Z
Updated: 2026-10-14T19:34:42.540Z
Reserved: 2026-09-08T02:56:43.567Z
Link: CVE-2026-86566
Updated: 2026-10-14T19:34:39.006Z
Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-10-14T18:19:18.203
Modified: 2026-10-14T20:17:59.953
Link: CVE-2026-86566