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Unscored USN-4550-1 5 CVEs

dpdk vulnerabilities

Published Sep 28, 2020 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Summary

Ryan Hall discovered that DPDK incorrectly handled vhost crypto. An
attacker inside a guest could use these issues to perform multiple attacks,
including denial of service attacks, obtaining sensitive information from
the host, and possibly executing arbitrary code on the host.

Fixed packages 1

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 20.04 LTS 20.04:LTS dpdk 19.11.3-0ubuntu0.2

Vulnerabilities 5

  • Unscored —

    A flaw was found in dpdk in versions before 18.11.10 and before 19.11.5. A flawed bounds checking in the copy_data func…

  • Unscored —

    A flaw was found in dpdk in versions before 18.11.10 and before 19.11.5. Virtio ring descriptors, and the data they des…

  • Unscored —

    A flaw was found in dpdk in versions before 18.11.10 and before 19.11.5. A lack of bounds checking when copying iv_data…

  • Unscored —

    A flaw was found in dpdk in versions before 18.11.10 and before 19.11.5. A complete lack of validation of attacker-cont…

  • Unscored —

    An integer underflow in dpdk versions before 18.11.10 and before 19.11.5 in the `move_desc` function can lead to large …

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-14374
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-14375
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-14376
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-14377
  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2020-14378