What is GHSA-88x8-5995-vmmf?

GHSA-88x8-5995-vmmf is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. A flaw was found in DPDK lib/vhost vhost-crypto. Write-back chain cleanup can follow an...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-88x8-5995-vmmf cover?

GHSA-88x8-5995-vmmf covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-86847. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-88x8-5995-vmmf?

GHSA-88x8-5995-vmmf has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.5, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-88x8-5995-vmmfMediumCVSS 6.5

A flaw was found in DPDK lib/vhost vhost-crypto. Write-back chain cleanup can follow an...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

October 14, 2026

Last Modified

October 14, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-86847 →

📋 Description

A flaw was found in DPDK lib/vhost vhost-crypto. Write-back chain cleanup can follow an uninitialized next pointer when mapping a guest descriptor fails, causing the host vhost-crypto process to hang or crash.

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-86847
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-86847
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2529847
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-88x8-5995-vmmf