Description
A flaw was found in DPDK lib/vhost vhost-crypto. Integer overflow in chain length checks, and missing length checks on the RSA path, can overflow a host buffer in the vhost-crypto backend.
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Remediation
Vendor Workaround
Do not attach a virtio-crypto vhost-user backend to untrusted guests.
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History
Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:00:00 +0000
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| Description | A flaw was found in DPDK lib/vhost vhost-crypto. Integer overflow in chain length checks, and missing length checks on the RSA path, can overflow a host buffer in the vhost-crypto backend. | |
| Title | Dpdk: dpdk: integer overflow combined with missing validation leads to host buffer overflow in vhost-crypto | |
| First Time appeared |
Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux Redhat openshift Redhat openstack |
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| Weaknesses | CWE-787 | |
| 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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| Vendors & Products |
Redhat
Redhat enterprise Linux Redhat openshift Redhat openstack |
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| Metrics |
cvssV3_1
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: redhat
Published:
Updated: 2026-10-14T17:52:15.802Z
Reserved: 2026-09-08T14:54:30.255Z
Link: CVE-2026-86849
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Status : Awaiting Analysis
Published: 2026-10-14T18:19:19.400
Modified: 2026-10-14T20:13:37.910
Link: CVE-2026-86849
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OpenCVE Enrichment
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Weaknesses
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CWE-787
Out-of-bounds Write