CVE-2020-14375

high

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.

References

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/09/28/3

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4550-1/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1879468

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/04/5

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/04/2

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/04/1

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00006.html

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00004.html

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2020-09-30

Updated: 2021-05-05

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High