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Integer Overflow or Wraparound

CVE-2020-10724

Severity Medium
Score 5.1/10

Summary

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.

  • LOW
  • LOCAL
  • LOW
  • UNCHANGED
  • NONE
  • HIGH
  • NONE
  • HIGH

CWE-190 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound

The software performs a calculation that can produce an integer overflow or wraparound, when the logic assumes that the resulting value will always be larger than the original value. This can introduce other weaknesses when the calculation is used for resource management or execution control.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published