CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-86845

MediumCVSS 6.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

A flaw was found in DPDK lib/vhost vhost-crypto. Session cleanup can leave a stale cached session pointer, and the data path does not check the session type before attaching it, leading to use-after-free or type confusion in the host vhost-crypto backend.

Risk Assessment

A guest VM can trigger a use-after-free or type confusion, potentially causing a host process crash or code execution.

Recommendation

Update DPDK to a version containing the fix and validate session types in the data path as recommended by the vendor.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A flaw was found in DPDK lib/vhost vhost-crypto. Session cleanup can leave a stale cached session pointer, and the data path does not check the session type before attaching it, leading to use-after-free or type confusion in the host vhost-crypto backend.

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