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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 RHSA-2021:1239-01 Important DPDK Segfault Fix

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Calendar Grey April 19, 2021
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A crucial DPDK security patch for Red Hat Enterprise Linux mitigates potential segfault vulnerabilities in virtualized settings. Discover additional details!
An update for dpdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2 Extended Update Support

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.
Security Fix(es):
* dpdk: librte_vhost Malicious guest could cause segfault by sending invalid Virtio descriptor (CVE-2020-10725)
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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory security update Red Hat Enterprise Linux important red hat enterprise linux critical alert segfault important advisory data processing dpdk data plane development kit

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10725 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2):
Source: dpdk-19.11-5.el8_2.src.rpm
aarch64: dpdk-19.11-5.el8_2.aarch64.rpm dpdk-debuginfo-19.11-5.el8_2.aarch64.rpm dpdk-debugsource-19.11-5.el8_2.aarch64.rpm dpdk-devel-19.11-5.el8_2.aarch64.rpm dpdk-devel-debuginfo-19.11-5.el8_2.aarch64.rpm dpdk-tools-19.11-5.el8_2.aarch64.rpm
noarch: dpdk-doc-19.11-5.el8_2.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: dpdk-19.11-5.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm dpdk-debuginfo-19.11-5.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm dpdk-debugsource-19.11-5.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm dpdk-devel-19.11-5.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm dpdk-devel-debuginfo-19.11-5.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm dpdk-tools-19.11-5.el8_2.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: dpdk-19.11-5.el8_2.x86_64.rpm dpdk-debuginfo-19.11-5.el8_2.x86_64.rpm dpdk-debugsource-19.11-5.el8_2.x86_64.rpm dpdk-devel-19.11-5.el8_2.x86_64.rpm dpdk-devel-debuginfo-19.11-5.el8_2.x86_64.rpm dpdk-tools-19.11-5.el8_2.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key


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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:1239-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:1239
Issue date: 2021-04-19

Topic

An update for dpdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.2Extended Update Support.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 security update Red Hat Enterprise Linux important red hat enterprise linux critical alert segfault important advisory data processing dpdk data plane development kit

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.2) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

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