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Ubuntu: USN-4550-1 (CVE-2020-14378): DPDK vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-4550-1 (CVE-2020-14378): DPDK vulnerabilities

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/28/2020
Created
09/30/2020
Added
09/29/2020
Modified
03/22/2023

Description

An integer underflow in dpdk versions before 18.11.10 and before 19.11.5 in the `move_desc` function can lead to large amounts of CPU cycles being eaten up in a long running loop. An attacker could cause `move_desc` to get stuck in a 4,294,967,295-count iteration loop. Depending on how `vhost_crypto` is being used this could prevent other VMs or network tasks from being serviced by the busy DPDK lcore for an extended period.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-dpdk

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