CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-3839

7.5 HIGH Published 2022-08-23 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2022-08-23
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Weaknesses
CWE-125, CWE-787

Description

A flaw was found in the vhost library in DPDK. Function vhost_user_set_inflight_fd() does not validate `msg->payload.inflight.num_queues`, possibly causing out-of-bounds memory read/write. Any software using DPDK vhost library may crash as a result of this vulnerability.

Affected configurations

• dpdk data plane development kit (< 22.03) • dpdk data plane development kit 22.03 • fedoraproject fedora 35 • redhat enterprise linux 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux 8.0 • redhat enterprise linux 9.0 • redhat enterprise linux fast datapath 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux fast datapath 8.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read weakness
  • CWE-787 Out-of-bounds Write weakness

References