CVE-2020-10725

HIGH

DPDK < 19.11 - Denial of Service via Missing Descriptor Address Validation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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()`.

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-05/msg00045.html
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/05/18/2
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html
Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2020-10725
Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=270

Scores

CVSS v3 7.7
EPSS 0.0221
EPSS Percentile 80.2%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-665
Status published
Products (5)
dpdk/data_plane_development_kit < 19.11
fedoraproject/fedora 32
opensuse/leap 15.1
oracle/enterprise_communications_broker 3.1.0
oracle/enterprise_communications_broker 3.2.0
Published May 20, 2020
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026