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CVE-2020-10725

Published: May 20, 2020

Modified: Aug 4, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.1

7.7

HIGH

Description

A flaw was found in DPDK version 19.11 and above that allows a malicious guest to cause a segmentation fault of the vhost-user backend application running on the host, which could result in a loss of connectivity for the other guests running on that host. This is caused by a missing validity check of the descriptor address in the function `virtio_dev_rx_batch_packed()`.

Vendor	Product	Versions
[UNKNOWN]	dpdk	affected `20.02.1` affected `19.11.2`

Weaknesses (CWE)

CVSS v3.1 Details

CVSS v3.1 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Network

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

Low

User Interaction

None

Scope

Changed

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

openSUSE-SU-2020:0693

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_SUSE

FEDORA-2020-04e3d34451

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_FEDORA

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/05/18/2

x_refsource_MISC

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html

x_refsource_MISC

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10725

x_refsource_CONFIRM

https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270

x_refsource_MISC

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