Denial of service in DPDK

1) Out-of-bounds read

EUVDB-ID: #VU101871

Risk: Medium

CVSSv4.0: 5.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H/E:U/U:Green]

CVE-ID: CVE-2024-11614

CWE-ID: CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds read

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a malicious guest to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

The vulnerability exists due to a boundary condition within the Vhost library checksum offload feature. A malicious guest can forge Virtio descriptors to trigger an out-of-bounds read and crash the hypervisor's vSwitch.

Mitigation

Install updates from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

DPDK: 21.05 - 24.11

CPE2.3

• cpe:2.3:a:dpdk:dpdk:21.11.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:dpdk:dpdk:22.11.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:dpdk:dpdk:23.03:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:dpdk:dpdk:23.07:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:dpdk:dpdk:23.11.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:dpdk:dpdk:24.03:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:dpdk:dpdk:24.07:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
• cpe:2.3:a:dpdk:dpdk:24.11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

External links

https://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2024/12/17/3
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2024-11614
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2327955

Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote authenticated user via the Internet.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.