Vulnerabilities > CVE-2021-3839 - Out-of-bounds Write vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 7.5 - HIGH
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
HIGH
network
low complexity
dpdk
fedoraproject
redhat
CWE-787

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.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
Application
Dpdk
90
Application
Redhat
2
OS
Fedoraproject
1
OS
Redhat
3

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)