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.
History

Sat, 24 Oct 2026 13:30:00 +0000

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First Time appeared Dpdk
Dpdk dpdk
Red Hat
Red Hat enterprise Linux
Redhat openshift Container Platform
Vendors & Products Dpdk
Dpdk dpdk
Red Hat
Red Hat enterprise Linux
Redhat openshift Container Platform

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 13:30:00 +0000

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References
Metrics threat_severity

None

threat_severity

Moderate


Wed, 14 Oct 2026 20:30:00 +0000

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Metrics ssvc

{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}


Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0000

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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)
First Time appeared Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
Redhat openshift
Redhat openstack
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
Vendors & Products Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux
Redhat openshift
Redhat openstack
References
Metrics cvssV3_1

{'score': 6.5, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H'}


cve-icon MITRE

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

cve-icon Vulnrichment

Updated: 2026-10-14T19:34:39.006Z

cve-icon NVD

Status : Awaiting Analysis

Published: 2026-10-14T18:19:18.203

Modified: 2026-10-14T20:17:59.953

Link: CVE-2026-86566

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2026-10-14T15:00:56Z

Links: CVE-2026-86566 - Bugzilla