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CVE-2021-3839 (GCVE-0-2021-3839)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-08-23 15:52 – Updated: 2024-08-03 17:09
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-125 - - Out-of-bounds Read | CWE-787 - Out-of-bounds Write
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
n/a dpdk Affected: Fixed in dpdk v22.03
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