CVE-2026-86847

medium

Description

A flaw was found in DPDK lib/vhost vhost-crypto. Write-back chain cleanup can follow an uninitialized next pointer when mapping a guest descriptor fails, causing the host vhost-crypto process to hang or crash.

References

https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2026-101511

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2529847

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-86847

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2026-10-14

Updated: 2026-10-14

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 6.5

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H