CVE-2020-14375: High severity dpdk (data plane development kit) vulnerability

Published Sep 16, 2020
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Updated

A flaw was found in dpdk in versions before 18.11.10 and before 19.11.5. Virtio ring descriptors, and the data they describe are in a region of memory accessible by from both the virtual machine and the host. An attacker in a VM can change the contents of the memory after vhostcrypto has validated it. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

Other sources

Virtio ring descriptors, and the data they describe are in a region of memory accessible by from both the virtual machine and the host. vhostcrypto.c frequently accesses the descriptors directly in the shared memory region. This is not safe. An attacker in the VM can change the contents of the memory after vhostcrypto has validated it. vhostcrypto.c needs to avoid processing data directly in the shared memory region. This can be exploited in the same way as finding number 1 to gain remote code execution and virtual machine escape.

Red Hat

Affected Software

9 affected componentsFixes available
redhat/dpdk<18.11.10
18.11.10
redhat/dpdk<19.11.5
19.11.5
ubuntu/dpdk<19.11.3-0ubuntu0.2
19.11.3-0ubuntu0.2
debian/dpdk
20.11.10-1~deb11u120.11.6-1~deb11u122.11.5-1~deb12u123.11.1-2
DPDK Data Plane Development Kit>=18.02.1<18.11.10
DPDK Data Plane Development Kit>=19.02<19.11.5
Canonical Ubuntu Linux=20.04
openSUSE Leap=15.1
openSUSE Leap=15.2

Event History

Sep 28, 2020
CVE Published
via Ubuntu·12:00 AM
Sep 30, 2020
CVE Published
via MITRE·06:42 PM
Data Sourced
via MITRE·06:42 PM
DescriptionWeakness
Jan 11, 2024
Data Sourced
via Launchpad·11:40 PM
Description

Parent advisories

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