CVE-2020-10725

Name	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()`.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub code/issues, web search, more)
NVD severity	medium
Debian Bugs	960936

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
dpdk (PTS)	stretch	16.11.11-1+deb9u1	fixed
	stretch (security)	16.11.11-1+deb9u2	fixed
	buster	18.11.6-1~deb10u1	fixed
	buster (security)	18.11.6-1~deb10u2	fixed
	bullseye, sid	19.11.2-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version	Debian Bugs
dpdk	source	(unstable)	19.11.2-1	960936
dpdk	source	buster	(not affected)
dpdk	source	stretch	(not affected)

[buster] - dpdk <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)
[stretch] - dpdk <not-affected> (Vulnerable code not present)