Vulnerability · Published Sep 30, 2020 · Assigned by redhat

CVE-2020-14375

High 7.8

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in dpdk. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 16% of all known vulnerabilities). Fixed versions are available - upgrade the affected package.

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.8High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 83.6% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

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 vhost_crypto has validated it. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

Affected packages & fixed versions

Ecosystem	Package	Fixed in	Advisory
Debian:12	dpdk	19.11.5-1	DEBIAN-CVE-2020-14375
Debian:13	dpdk	19.11.5-1	DEBIAN-CVE-2020-14375
Debian:14	dpdk	19.11.5-1	DEBIAN-CVE-2020-14375

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	dpdk	All dpdk versions before 18.11.10 and before 19.11.5

Weakness: CWE-367

References

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1879468 x_refsource_MISC
https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/09/28/3 x_refsource_MISC
USN-4550-1 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_UBUNTU
openSUSE-SU-2020:1593 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
openSUSE-SU-2020:1599 vendor-advisory, x_refsource_SUSE
[oss-security] 20210104 Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK security advisory for multiple vhost crypto issues mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
[oss-security] 20210104 Re: DPDK security advisory for multiple vhost crypto issues mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST
[oss-security] 20210104 Re: [dpdk-dev] DPDK security advisory for multiple vhost crypto issues mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST