CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-86566

MediumCVSS 6.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

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.

Risk Assessment

An attacking guest VM can cause a denial of service, disrupting the shared vhost backend and all virtual machines using it.

Recommendation

Update DPDK to a fixed version and monitor for unusual traffic behavior from VMs using the shared vhost.

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Original NVD description (English source)

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.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS