This page tracks the Debian fix status. The vulnerability itself is described on the main CVE page. View CVE-2021-3839 →

DEBIAN-CVE-2021-3839

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 ca...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 dpdk

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"20.11.5-1"}]}]

Debian:13 dpdk

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"20.11.5-1"}]}]

Debian:14 dpdk

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"20.11.5-1"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org