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high7.7

CVE-2020-10725

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 t…

Impact

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()`.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
DpdkData Plane Development Kit
through 19.11
FedoraprojectFedora
Version 32
OpensuseLeap
Version 15.1
OracleEnterprise Communications Broker
Versions 3.1.0, 3.2.0

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