What is GHSA-pwj5-mm8f-mm4p?

GHSA-pwj5-mm8f-mm4p is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Medium severity. A flaw was found in DPDK lib/vhost. Memory size is not adequately validated before mmap during...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-pwj5-mm8f-mm4p cover?

GHSA-pwj5-mm8f-mm4p covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-86561. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-pwj5-mm8f-mm4p?

GHSA-pwj5-mm8f-mm4p has a CVSS v3 base score of 6.5, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-pwj5-mm8f-mm4pMediumCVSS 6.5

A flaw was found in DPDK lib/vhost. Memory size is not adequately validated before mmap during...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

October 14, 2026

Last Modified

October 14, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-86561 →

📋 Description

A flaw was found in DPDK lib/vhost. Memory size is not adequately validated before mmap during vhost memory-region setup, which can lead to a host crash or memory corruption.

🔗 References (4)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-86561
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2026-86561
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2529666
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pwj5-mm8f-mm4p