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openSUSE Leap 42.3: 2018:1560-1 Moderate: dpdk Memory Exposure

opensuse
Calendar Grey June 6, 2018
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
openSUSE Security Notice: Upgrade for dpdk-thunderxdpdk to mitigate a memory leak vulnerability identified in CVE-2018-1059.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available.

Description

This update fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2018-1059: The DPDK vhost-user interface did not check to verify

that all the requested guest physical range was mapped and contiguous

when performing Guest Physical Addresses to Host Virtual Addresses

translations. This may have lead to a malicious guest exposing

vhost-user backend process memory (bsc#1089638).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-12-SP3:Update update project.

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 42.3:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2018-558=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (i586 x86_64):

dpdk-16.11.6-6.5.1

dpdk-debuginfo-16.11.6-6.5.1

dpdk-debugsource-16.11.6-6.5.1

dpdk-devel-16.11.6-6.5.1

dpdk-devel-debuginfo-16.11.6-6.5.1

dpdk-examples-16.11.6-6.5.1

dpdk-examples-debuginfo-16.11.6-6.5.1

dpdk-tools-16.11.6-6.5.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (x86_64):

dpdk-kmp-default-16.11.6_k4.4.132_53-6.5.1

dpdk-kmp-default-debuginfo-16.11.6_k4.4.132_53-6.5.1

- openSUSE Leap 42.3 (noarch):

dpdk-doc-16.11.6-6.5.1

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1059.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1089638

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2018:1560-1
Rating: moderate
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 42.3

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