Issued:

2020-11-03

Updated:

2020-11-03

RHSA-2020:4806 - Important: dpdk security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Synopsis

Important: dpdk security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for dpdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: dpdk (19.11.3). (BZ#1824905)

Security Fix(es):

• dpdk: librte_vhost Malicious guest could cause segfault by sending invalid Virtio descriptor (CVE-2020-10725)

• dpdk: librte_vhost Integer overflow in vhost_user_set_log_base() (CVE-2020-10722)

• dpdk: librte_vhost Integer truncation in vhost_user_check_and_alloc_queue_pair() (CVE-2020-10723)

• dpdk: librte_vhost VHOST_USER_GET_INFLIGHT_FD message flooding to result in a DoS (CVE-2020-10726)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

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

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• dpdk-devel-debuginfo-19.11.3-1.el8.aarch64.rpm
• dpdk-devel-19.11.3-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• dpdk-devel-debuginfo-19.11.3-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• dpdk-devel-debuginfo-19.11.3-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
• dpdk-19.11.3-1.el8.src.rpm
• dpdk-devel-19.11.3-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
• dpdk-debuginfo-19.11.3-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
• dpdk-tools-19.11.3-1.el8.aarch64.rpm
• dpdk-debugsource-19.11.3-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
• dpdk-19.11.3-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
• dpdk-tools-19.11.3-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
• dpdk-debugsource-19.11.3-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• dpdk-19.11.3-1.el8.aarch64.rpm
• dpdk-debuginfo-19.11.3-1.el8.aarch64.rpm
• dpdk-debugsource-19.11.3-1.el8.aarch64.rpm
• dpdk-devel-19.11.3-1.el8.aarch64.rpm
• dpdk-19.11.3-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• dpdk-debuginfo-19.11.3-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm
• dpdk-doc-19.11.3-1.el8.noarch.rpm
• dpdk-tools-19.11.3-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1801361
• This content is not included.BZ - 1813252
• This content is not included.BZ - 1824905
• This content is not included.BZ - 1828867
• This content is not included.BZ - 1828874
• This content is not included.BZ - 1828894
• This content is not included.BZ - 1828898
• This content is not included.BZ - 1868708

CVEs

• CVE-2020-10722
• CVE-2020-10723
• CVE-2020-10725
• CVE-2020-10726

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.3_release_notes/

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
• Offline Security Data data is available for integration with other systems. See Offline Security Data API to get started.