Vulnerability CVE-2021-3839


Published: 2022-08-23

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.

 References:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2025882
https://github.com/DPDK/dpdk/commit/6442c329b9d2ded0f44b27d2016aaba8ba5844c5
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3839

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