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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2020-4806-01 Important: DPDK Bug Fix

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Calendar Grey November 4, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A major release for CentOS Stream 9 that resolves critical OpenSSL vulnerabilities and introduces performance improvements.
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 (19.11.3). (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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix DoS Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact Important dpdk

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10722 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10723 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10725 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10726 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/

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source: dpdk-19.11.3-1.el8.src.rpm
aarch64: 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-devel-debuginfo-19.11.3-1.el8.aarch64.rpm dpdk-tools-19.11.3-1.el8.aarch64.rpm
noarch: dpdk-doc-19.11.3-1.el8.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: dpdk-19.11.3-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm dpdk-debuginfo-19.11.3-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm dpdk-debugsource-19.11.3-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm dpdk-devel-19.11.3-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm dpdk-devel-debuginfo-19.11.3-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm dpdk-tools-19.11.3-1.el8.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: dpdk-19.11.3-1.el8.x86_64.rpm dpdk-debuginfo-19.11.3-1.el8.x86_64.rpm dpdk-debugsource-19.11.3-1.el8.x86_64.rpm dpdk-devel-19.11.3-1.el8.x86_64.rpm dpdk-devel-debuginfo-19.11.3-1.el8.x86_64.rpm dpdk-tools-19.11.3-1.el8.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:4806-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4806
Issue date: 2020-11-03

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 Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory bug fix DoS Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact Important dpdk

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

1801361 - dpdk-pmdinfo.py can't work on RHEL8

1813252 - dpdk-devel needs rdma-core-devel and libmnl-devel on x86_64

1824905 - [Rebase] Rebase DPDK to 19.11.1

1828867 - CVE-2020-10722 dpdk: librte_vhost Integer overflow in vhost_user_set_log_base()

1828874 - CVE-2020-10723 dpdk: librte_vhost Integer truncation in vhost_user_check_and_alloc_queue_pair()

1828894 - CVE-2020-10725 dpdk: librte_vhost Malicious guest could cause segfault by sending invalid Virtio descriptor

1828898 - CVE-2020-10726 dpdk: librte_vhost VHOST_USER_GET_INFLIGHT_FD message flooding to result in a DoS

1868708 - Update to dpdk-19.11.3

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