CVE-2020-10725 - CVE House
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Status published High CVE-2020-10725

A flaw was found in DPDK version 19.11 and above...

Vulnerability 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()`.

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

Affected Vendor

Affected Software

dpdk
Vulnerable Versions:
20.02.1, 19.11.2

Timeline

Official Publish: May 20th, 2020
Last Modified: August 4th, 2024
Added to House: July 21st, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.