Information Exposure Affecting data_plane_development_kit package, versions [,18.02.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.15% (53rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-DATAPLANEDEVELOPMENTKIT-2369699
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Apr 2018
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Apr 2018

CVE-2018-1059  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade data_plane_development_kit to version 18.02.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The DPDK vhost-user interface does not check to verify that all the requested guest physical range is mapped and contiguous when performing Guest Physical Addresses to Host Virtual Addresses translations. This may lead to a malicious guest exposing vhost-user backend process memory. All versions before 18.02.1 are vulnerable.

CVSS Base Scores

version 3.1