CVE-2020-14374
dpdk: remote Code Execution in vhost_crypto (VM Escape)
Severity
ImportantRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.1
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Published · September 29, 2020
Updated · November 2, 2026
Description
A flaw was found in dpdk. 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.
Statement
This flaw does not affect the versions of dpdk as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and 8 or the versions embedded in Red Hat Virtualization or the Fast Datapath openvswitch package, as they do not enable generic crypto device library support. This causes the vulnerable code in vhost_crypto.c to not be included.
This flaw does not affect Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 and 4 as dpdk (embedded in ceph source rpm) is not built in the packages, therefore the vulnerable code is not available in the resulting RPM and the issue cannot be exploited.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.1 · 8.8CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE-120 · Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input