CVE-2026-86562 vulnerability in Red Hat Products
Published on October 14, 2026
Dpdk: dpdk: control-queue descriptor double-fetch overflows host heap in dpdk vhost (vduse)
A flaw was found in DPDK lib/vhost. A TOCTOU double-fetch of control-queue descriptors allows a heap buffer overflow with attacker-controlled content in the VDUSE control-queue handler.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2026-86562 is exploitable with local system access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is considered to have a low attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to be very high.
Timeline
Reported to Red Hat.
Made public. 36 days later.
Weakness Type
What is a Race Condition Vulnerability?
The program contains a code sequence that can run concurrently with other code, and the code sequence requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence that is operating concurrently.
CVE-2026-86562 has been classified to as a Race Condition vulnerability or weakness.
Products Associated with CVE-2026-86562
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