CVE-2026-86845

Published: Oct 14, 2026Modified: Oct 15, 2026

6.5

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Exploitability: 2.0 / Impact: 4.0

Source: secalert@redhat.com (Secondary)

Description

A flaw was found in DPDK lib/vhost vhost-crypto. Session cleanup can leave a stale cached session pointer, and the data path does not check the session type before attaching it, leading to use-after-free or type confusion in the host vhost-crypto backend.

Related CWEs

CWE-825

Expired Pointer Dereference

The product dereferences a pointer that contains a location for memory that was previously valid, but is no longer valid.

References (2)

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-86845

Source: secalert@redhat.com

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2529844

Source: secalert@redhat.com

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