CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-86562

HighCVSS 7.8
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A flaw was found in DPDK lib/vhost where a TOCTOU double-fetch of control-queue descriptors allows a heap buffer overflow with attacker-controlled content in the VDUSE control-queue handler.

Risk Assessment

An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overflow a buffer, potentially leading to crashes or arbitrary code execution in the vhost process.

Recommendation

Update DPDK to a version containing the fix and restrict access to the VDUSE interface.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A flaw was found in DPDK lib/vhost. A TOCTOU double-fetch of control-queue descriptors allows a heap buffer overflow with attacker-controlled content in the VDUSE control-queue handler.

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