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 products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
n/a dpdk
All dpdk versions before 18.11.10 and before 19.11.5affected
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1879468 ↗
- https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/09/28/3 ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4550-1/ ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00004.html ↗
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00006.html ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/04/5 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/04/1 ↗
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/04/2 ↗