Issued:
2018-06-26
Updated:
2018-06-26

RHSA-2018:2038 - Moderate: dpdk security, bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

Moderate: dpdk security, bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for DPDK is now available for Extras for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

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.

Description

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.

Security Fix(es):

  • dpdk: Information exposure in unchecked guest physical to host virtual address translations (CVE-2018-1059)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

This issue was discovered by Maxime Coquelin (Red Hat).

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian7ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 97ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server7x86_64

Updated Packages

  • dpdk-debuginfo-17.11-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • dpdk-17.11-11.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • dpdk-devel-17.11-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • dpdk-17.11-11.el7.src.rpm
  • dpdk-tools-17.11-11.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • dpdk-17.11-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • dpdk-tools-17.11-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
  • dpdk-debuginfo-17.11-11.el7.ppc64le.rpm
  • dpdk-doc-17.11-11.el7.noarch.rpm
  • dpdk-devel-17.11-11.el7.ppc64le.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information