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Type: advisorySources: OSVCVE: CVE-2019-9547

In Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) before 19.01, a malicious vhost client (i.e., virtual machine) could carefully construct a circular descriptor chain that would result in a partial denial of service in the SPDK vhost target, because the vhost target did not properly detect such chains.

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CVE-2019-9547
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31 Oct 2026, 10:40 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

CVE-2019-9547

core-osv · Original source

Published 1 Mar 2019, 22:29 UTC

In Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) before 19.01, a malicious vhost client (i.e., virtual machine) could carefully construct a circular descriptor chain that would result in a partial denial of service in the SPDK vhost target, because the vhost target did not properly detect such chains.

osv:CVE-2019-9547
Complete source record
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  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2019-9547",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
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    "title": "CVE-2019-9547",
    "summary": "In Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK) before 19.01, a malicious vhost client (i.e., virtual machine) could carefully construct a circular descriptor chain that would result in a partial denial of service in the SPDK vhost target, because the vhost target did not properly detect such chains.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2019-9547",
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        }
      ],
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                  },
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      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:50:56.958561298Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/spdk/spdk/commit/eca42c66092b9031711afe215fbc1891ee55f143",
        "https://github.com/spdk/spdk/releases/tag/v19.01"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
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        "value": "CVE-2019-9547",
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    "security_relevant": true,
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  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 382378,
  "published_at": "2019-03-01T22:29:00.277+00:00"
}