What the vulnerability does

01Description

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.

Key dates

02Disclosure timeline

April 24, 2018 CVE published
September 17, 2024 Record updated