CVE-2020-10724 Information disclosure in dpdk

What is CVE-2020-10724?

CVE-2020-10724 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 vulnerability was found in DPDK versions 18.11 and above. The vhost-crypto library code is missing validations for user-supplied values, potentially allowing an information leak through an out-of-bounds memory read.

Weakness: CWE-125, CWE-190

Which versions are affected by CVE-2020-10724?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Dpdk Data Plane Development Kit, Fedoraproject Fedora.

How do I fix CVE-2020-10724?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2020-10724 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2020-10724 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-38527, DEBIAN-CVE-2020-10724, GHSA-ffrh-qjc2-38wm, UBUNTU-CVE-2020-10724.