CVE-2020-10726

Published: 18 May 2020

A vulnerability was found in DPDK versions 19.11 and above. A malicious container that has direct access to the vhost-user socket can keep sending VHOST_USER_GET_INFLIGHT_FD messages, causing a resource leak (file descriptors and virtual memory), which may result in a denial of service.

Priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

4.4

Score breakdown

Status

Package	Release	Status
dpdk Launchpad, Ubuntu, Debian	bionic	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	eoan	Not vulnerable (code not present)
	focal	Released (19.11.1-0ubuntu1.1)
	trusty	Does not exist
	upstream	Released (19.11.2,18.11.8,20.02.1)
	xenial	Not vulnerable (code not present)

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	4.4
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	High
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

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