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RedHat: RHSA-2020:1735-01 Moderate: dpdk DoS Risk Addressed

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Calendar Grey April 28, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
SUSE reveals kernel enhancement for SLES 15, rated as low risk, mitigating potential data exposure and minor bug corrections.
An update for dpdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

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 (19.11). (BZ#1773889)
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.
Additional Changes:
For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix DoS Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity security impact dpdk update

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14818 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.2_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: dpdk-19.11-4.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: dpdk-19.11-4.el8.aarch64.rpm dpdk-debuginfo-19.11-4.el8.aarch64.rpm dpdk-debugsource-19.11-4.el8.aarch64.rpm dpdk-devel-19.11-4.el8.aarch64.rpm dpdk-devel-debuginfo-19.11-4.el8.aarch64.rpm dpdk-tools-19.11-4.el8.aarch64.rpm
noarch: dpdk-doc-19.11-4.el8.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: dpdk-19.11-4.el8.ppc64le.rpm dpdk-debuginfo-19.11-4.el8.ppc64le.rpm dpdk-debugsource-19.11-4.el8.ppc64le.rpm dpdk-devel-19.11-4.el8.ppc64le.rpm dpdk-devel-debuginfo-19.11-4.el8.ppc64le.rpm dpdk-tools-19.11-4.el8.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: dpdk-19.11-4.el8.x86_64.rpm dpdk-debuginfo-19.11-4.el8.x86_64.rpm dpdk-debugsource-19.11-4.el8.x86_64.rpm dpdk-devel-19.11-4.el8.x86_64.rpm dpdk-devel-debuginfo-19.11-4.el8.x86_64.rpm dpdk-tools-19.11-4.el8.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:1735-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1735
Issue date: 2020-04-28

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 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix DoS Red Hat Enterprise Linux moderate severity security impact dpdk update

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

1755538 - Use hardening specs to build dpdk-pmdinfogen

1773889 - [Rebase] Rebase DPDK to 19.11

1779229 - Remove dpdk-pdump and dpdk-pmdinfo from dpdk and dpdk-tools packages

1805140 - Remove mlx{4,5} glue library

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