Resource Exhaustion Affecting openvswitch package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (32nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL7-OPENVSWITCH-5256957
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed18 May 2020

Introduced: 18 May 2020

CVE-2020-10726  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:7 openvswitch.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openvswitch package and not the openvswitch package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.

CVSS Scores

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