CVE-2020-10725

dpdk: librte_vhost Malicious guest could cause segfault by sending invalid Virtio descriptor

Published May 20, 2020 CVSS 3.1 · 7.7 High EPSS 2.2% KEV · Not listed
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()`.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2020-3152 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()`.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4362-1 DPDK vulnerabilities
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