Resource exhaustion in DPDK - CVE-2022-0669
Published: May 25, 2022 / Updated: May 25, 2022
Vulnerability identifier: #VU63630
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:H/E:U/U:Clear
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-0669
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Local access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: DPDK Project
Affected software:
DPDK
DPDK
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to DPDK incorrectly handles inflight type messages. A local user can exhaust available fd in the vhost-user slave process and perform a denial of service attack.
How to mitigate CVE-2022-0669
Install updates from vendor's website.