CVE-2021-3839

Name
CVE-2021-3839
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.
NVD Severity
medium
Other trackers
CVE, NVD, CERT, CVE Details, CIRCL, Arch Linux, Debian, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE (Bugzilla), SUSE (CVE), Mageia
Mailing lists
oss-security, full-disclosure, bugtraq
Exploits
Exploit DB, Metasploit
Forges
GitHub (code, issues), Aports (code, issues)

References

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

Match rules

CPE URI Source package Min version Max version
cpe:2.3:a:dpdk:data_plane_development_kit:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* data_plane_development_kit >= None < 22.03

Vulnerable and fixed packages

Source package Branch Version Maintainer Status