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CVE-2020-14374

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2020-09-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-120

Description

A flaw was found in dpdk in versions before 18.11.10 and before 19.11.5. A flawed bounds checking in the copy_data function leads to a buffer overflow allowing an attacker in a virtual machine to write arbitrary data to any address in the vhost_crypto application. The highest threat from this vulnerability is to data confidentiality and integrity as well as system availability.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 20.04
• DPDK Data Plane Development Kit: from 18.02.1 before 18.11.10; from 19.02 before 19.11.5 — fixed in 18.11.10, 19.11.5
• openSUSE Leap: 15.1, 15.2

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: DPDK Data Plane Development Kit 18.11.10, 19.11.5. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00004.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00006.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/04/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/04/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/04/5
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1879466
• https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2020/09/28/3
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00004.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2020-10/msg00006.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/04/1
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/04/2
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2021/01/04/5

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