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dpdk — security advisory

Type: advisorySources: OSVAdvisory ID: DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10725

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()`.

Products
dpdk
Affected versions
Not specified
Fixed versions
19.11.2-1
CVEs
CVE-2020-10725
Confirmed fixed CVEs
Not specified
Updated in this feed
1 Nov 2026, 12:28 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10725

core-osv · Original source

Published 20 May 2020, 14:15 UTC

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()`.

osv:DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10725

dpdk

Fixed versions: 19.11.2-1

dpdk

Fixed versions: 19.11.2-1

dpdk

Fixed versions: 19.11.2-1

Complete source record
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