What is GHSA-hw7m-fvc7-m65f?

GHSA-hw7m-fvc7-m65f is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. A flaw was found in the DPDK nfp vDPA driver. Stack and heap buffers sized for a single queue...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-hw7m-fvc7-m65f cover?

GHSA-hw7m-fvc7-m65f covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-86856. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-hw7m-fvc7-m65f?

GHSA-hw7m-fvc7-m65f has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.5, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-hw7m-fvc7-m65fMediumCVSS 6.5

A flaw was found in the DPDK nfp vDPA driver. Stack and heap buffers sized for a single queue...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

October 14, 2026

Last Modified

October 14, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-86856 →

📋 Description

A flaw was found in the DPDK nfp vDPA driver. Stack and heap buffers sized for a single queue pair can be overflowed when more virtqueues are configured, leading to a host crash or memory corruption.

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-86856
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-86856
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2529897
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hw7m-fvc7-m65f