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CVE-2018-1059
medium
Description
The DPDK vhost-user interface does not check to verify that all the requested guest physical range is mapped and contiguous when performing Guest Physical Addresses to Host Virtual Addresses translations. This may lead to a malicious guest exposing vhost-user backend process memory. All versions before 18.02.1 are vulnerable.
References
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3642-2/
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3642-1/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1544298
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2018-1059
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2524
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2102