CVE-2020-10725

State: Published
Severity: 7.7 High
Published: May 20, 2020
Updated: Aug 4, 2024
Reserved: Mar 20, 2020

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()`.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	7.7 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H	redhat

Weaknesses

CWE-665

Affected Products

Product	Versions
dpdk[UNKNOWN]	20.02.1Affected 19.11.2Affected

References

openSUSE-SU-2020:0693vendor-advisory
FEDORA-2020-04e3d34451vendor-advisory
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/05/18/2
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10725
https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270

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