CVE-2020-10723 Integer overflow in dpdk

What is CVE-2020-10723?

CVE-2020-10723 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 19 May 2020. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

A memory corruption issue was found in DPDK versions 17.05 and above. This flaw is caused by an integer truncation on the index of a payload. Under certain circumstances, the index (a UInt) is copied and truncated into a uint16, which can lead to out of bound indexing and possible memory corruption.

Weakness: CWE-190

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-10723?

It affects 6 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Dpdk Data Plane Development Kit, Fedoraproject Fedora, Opensuse Leap, Oracle Communications Session Border Controller, Oracle Enterprise Communications Broker.

How do I fix CVE-2020-10723?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2020-10723 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-10723 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as AZL-38977, DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10723, GHSA-4gq2-9rxc-45pg, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-10723.