CVE-2026-86561

A flaw was found in DPDK lib/vhost. Memory size is not adequately validated before mmap during vhost memory-region setup, which can lead to a host crash or memory corruption.

Score

CVSS 3.1 6.5 Medium

Status

Awaiting Analysis - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2026-10-14

Last modified

2026-10-20

Weaknesses

CWE-770

Affected products

• Enterprise Linux (Redhat)
• Openshift (Redhat)
• Openstack (Redhat)

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-86561
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2529666