cve/2020/CVE-2020-10725.md

CVE-2020-10725

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().

POC

Reference

• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpujan2021.html

Github

• https://github.com/Live-Hack-CVE/CVE-2020-10725