DPDK Vhost Library Checksum Offload out-of-bounds

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Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in DPDK. It has been classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Vhost Library Checksum Offload Handler. The manipulation leads to out-of-bounds. This vulnerability is uniquely identified as CVE-2024-11614. Local access is required to approach this attack. No exploit exists.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in DPDK (unknown version) and classified as critical. This issue affects an unknown code block of the component Vhost Library Checksum Offload Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a out-of-bounds vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-125. The product reads data past the end, or before the beginning, of the intended buffer. Impacted is availability. The summary by CVE is:

An out-of-bounds read vulnerability was found in DPDK's Vhost library checksum offload feature. This issue enables an untrusted or compromised guest to crash the hypervisor's vSwitch by forging Virtio descriptors to cause out-of-bounds reads. This flaw allows an attacker with a malicious VM using a virtio driver to cause the vhost-user side to crash by sending a packet with a Tx checksum offload request and an invalid csum_start offset.

The advisory is shared at bugzilla.redhat.com. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2024-11614 since 11/22/2024. The exploitation is known to be difficult. An attack has to be approached locally. Neither technical details nor an exploit are publicly available.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 213102 (Debian dsa-5833 : dpdk - security update), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

There is no information about possible countermeasures known. It may be suggested to replace the affected object with an alternative product.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (213102) and EUVD (EUVD-2024-34403). If you want to get the best quality for vulnerability data then you always have to consider VulDB.

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VulDB Meta Base Score: 6.1
VulDB Meta Temp Score: 6.1

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Exploitinginfo

Class: Out-of-bounds
CWE: CWE-125 / CWE-119
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Physical: Partially
Local: Yes
Remote: Partially

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Nessus ID: 213102
Nessus Name: Debian dsa-5833 : dpdk - security update

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Recommended: no mitigation known
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Timelineinfo

11/22/2024 🔍
12/17/2024 +25 days 🔍
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07/02/2025 +197 days 🔍

Sourcesinfo

Advisory: bugzilla.redhat.com
Status: Not defined

CVE: CVE-2024-11614 (🔍)
GCVE (CVE): GCVE-0-2024-11614
GCVE (VulDB): GCVE-100-288797
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Entryinfo

Created: 12/17/2024 20:54
Updated: 07/02/2025 16:09
Changes: 12/17/2024 20:54 (49), 12/18/2024 10:17 (2), 12/18/2024 10:25 (12), 01/10/2025 04:49 (1), 07/02/2025 16:09 (1)
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Cache ID: 216::103

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