RHSA-2020:1226

Vulnerability from csaf_redhat - Published: 2020-04-01 00:27 - Updated: 2026-02-20 20:11
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: dpdk security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Severity
Moderate
Notes
Topic: An update for dpdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
Details: The dpdk packages provide the Data Plane Development Kit, which is a set of libraries and drivers for fast packet processing in the user space. The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: dpdk (18.11.5). (BZ#1785678) Security Fix(es): * dpdk: possible memory leak leads to denial of service (CVE-2019-14818) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
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CVE-2019-14818

A flaw was found in dpdk where a malicious master, or a container with access to vhost_user socket, can send specially crafted VRING_SET_NUM messages, resulting in a memory leak including file descriptors. This flaw could lead to a denial of service condition.

7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-401 - Missing Release of Memory after Effective Lifetime
Vendor Fix For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to: https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1226
References
Acknowledgments
Red Hat Jason Wang
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            "7Server-EXTRAS-7.8:dpdk-debuginfo-0:18.11.5-1.el7_8.x86_64",
            "7Server-EXTRAS-7.8:dpdk-devel-0:18.11.5-1.el7_8.ppc64le",
            "7Server-EXTRAS-7.8:dpdk-devel-0:18.11.5-1.el7_8.x86_64",
            "7Server-EXTRAS-7.8:dpdk-doc-0:18.11.5-1.el7_8.noarch",
            "7Server-EXTRAS-7.8:dpdk-tools-0:18.11.5-1.el7_8.ppc64le",
            "7Server-EXTRAS-7.8:dpdk-tools-0:18.11.5-1.el7_8.x86_64"
          ]
        }
      ],
      "threats": [
        {
          "category": "impact",
          "details": "Moderate"
        }
      ],
      "title": "dpdk: possible memory leak leads to denial of service"
    }
  ]
}


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