RockyLinux 9 : dpdk (RLSA-2026:94629)

high Nessus Plugin ID 375847

Synopsis

The remote RockyLinux host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote RockyLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2026:94629 advisory.

* dpdk: dpdk: Missing memory size validation before mmap in vhost memory region setup (CVE-2026-86561)

* dpdk: dpdk: Control-queue descriptor double-fetch overflows host heap in DPDK vhost (VDUSE) (CVE-2026-86562)

* dpdk: dpdk: Double offset bug in vhost log mapping calculation (CVE-2026-86563)

* dpdk: dpdk: Guest can desynchronize virtqueue size from inflight descriptor table size, causing out-of- bounds write (CVE-2026-86565)

* dpdk: dpdk: Guest with runt RX descriptors underflows copy length in vhost enqueue (split and packed rings) (CVE-2026-86566)

* dpdk: dpdk: VDUSE handler fails to invalidate vring pointers when IOTLB is invalidated, leading to use- after-unmap (CVE-2026-86567)

* dpdk: dpdk: Guest-triggered use-after-free and type confusion in vhost-crypto session cleanup (CVE-2026-86845)

* dpdk: dpdk: Guest can trigger out-of-bounds write by controlling avail ring index in vhost-crypto (CVE-2026-86846)

* dpdk: dpdk: Guest can trigger infinite loop in vhost-crypto writeback chain cleanup (CVE-2026-86847)

* dpdk: dpdk: Time-of-check/time-of-use vulnerability allowing guest-triggered out-of-bounds write in vhost-crypto (CVE-2026-86848)

* dpdk: dpdk: Integer overflow combined with missing validation leads to host buffer overflow in vhost- crypto (CVE-2026-86849)

* dpdk: dpdk: Stack and heap buffer overflow in nfp vDPA driver (CVE-2026-86856)

* dpdk: dpdk: Guest-triggered out-of-bounds walk via vhost indirect descriptor length TOCTOU (CVE-2026-93683)

* dpdk: dpdk: heap out-of-bounds read/write in GSO header copy (CVE-2026-100236)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the RockyLinux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 375847

File Name: rocky_linux_RLSA-2026-94629.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Family: Rocky Linux Local Security Checks

Published: 11/4/2026

Updated: 11/4/2026

Supported Sensors: Nessus Agent, Continuous Assessment, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.9

Percentile: 96.47

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 6.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-100236

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-86848

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:rocky:linux:9, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:dpdk-debuginfo, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:dpdk-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:dpdk-devel, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:dpdk-doc, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:dpdk-tools, p-cpe:/a:rocky:linux:dpdk

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/RockyLinux/release, Host/RockyLinux/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/4/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/14/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-100236, CVE-2026-86561, CVE-2026-86562, CVE-2026-86563, CVE-2026-86565, CVE-2026-86566, CVE-2026-86567, CVE-2026-86845, CVE-2026-86846, CVE-2026-86847, CVE-2026-86848, CVE-2026-86849, CVE-2026-86856, CVE-2026-93683

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