CVE-2020-10722

Publication date 18 May 2020

Last updated 25 August 2025

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

A vulnerability was found in DPDK versions 18.05 and above. A missing check for an integer overflow in vhost_user_set_log_base() could result in a smaller memory map than requested, possibly allowing memory corruption.

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
dpdk	20.04 LTS focal	Fixed 19.11.1-0ubuntu1.1
	19.10 eoan	Fixed 18.11.5-0ubuntu0.19.10.2
	18.04 LTS bionic	Fixed 17.11.9-0ubuntu18.04.2
	16.04 LTS xenial	Not affected
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 6.7 · Medium

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Local
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	High
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	6.7 · Medium
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-4362-1
DPDK vulnerabilities
18 May 2020

Other references

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2020-10722