Posted by Maxime Coquelin on Oct 14 Multiple vulnerabilities were fixed in DPDK. Downstream stakeholders were warned in advance in order to coordinate the release of fixes and reduce the vulnerability window. A malicious guest can exploit various memory safety issues in the DPDK vhost, vhost-crypto, vDPA, and GSO libraries to cause host crashes, denial of service, or potential memory corruption.
DPDK security advisory: Multiple vulnerabilities in vhost/vhost-crypto/vDPA/GSO libraries
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