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Red Hat Enterprise 7 Extras: RHSA-2020-1226-01 Moderate: dpdk DoS Risk

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Calendar Grey March 31, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat has released an important update to dpdk addressing a security vulnerability that could lead to a denial of service stemming from a memory leak. Discover more details here.
An update for dpdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras

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

Summary

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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service bug fix memory leak Red Hat Enterprise dpdk

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14818 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras:
Source: dpdk-18.11.5-1.el7_8.src.rpm
noarch: dpdk-doc-18.11.5-1.el7_8.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: dpdk-18.11.5-1.el7_8.ppc64le.rpm dpdk-debuginfo-18.11.5-1.el7_8.ppc64le.rpm dpdk-devel-18.11.5-1.el7_8.ppc64le.rpm dpdk-tools-18.11.5-1.el7_8.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: dpdk-18.11.5-1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm dpdk-debuginfo-18.11.5-1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm dpdk-devel-18.11.5-1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm dpdk-tools-18.11.5-1.el7_8.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:1226-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1226
Issue date: 2020-03-31

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 impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate denial of service bug fix memory leak Red Hat Enterprise dpdk

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras - noarch, ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1737327 - CVE-2019-14818 dpdk: possible memory leak leads to denial of service

1785678 - [Rebase] Rebase DPDK to 18.11.5

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