vulnerability

Ubuntu: (Multiple Advisories) (CVE-2018-1059): DPDK vulnerability

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
Published
Apr 24, 2018
Added
May 17, 2018
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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.

Solution

ubuntu-upgrade-dpdk
Title
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