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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 RHSA-2022-8263-01 Important DPDK DoS Fix

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Calendar Grey November 15, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
In a recent announcement, Red Hat issued critical advisories regarding DPDK security enhancements aimed at reducing vulnerabilities and optimizing overall operational efficiency in RHEL 9.
An update for dpdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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: DoS when a Vhost header crosses more than two descriptors and exhausts all mbufs (CVE-2022-2132)
* DPDK: out-of-bounds read/write in vhost_user_set_inflight_fd() may lead to crash (CVE-2021-3839)
* dpdk: error recovery in mlx5 driver not handled properly, allowing for denial of service (CVE-2022-28199)
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 9.1 Release Notes linked from the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory DoS attack Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact important update dpdk data plane development

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-3839 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2132 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-28199 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important https://docs.redhat.com/en/documentation/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.1_release_notes/index

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9):
Source: dpdk-21.11.2-1.el9_1.src.rpm
aarch64: dpdk-21.11.2-1.el9_1.aarch64.rpm dpdk-debuginfo-21.11.2-1.el9_1.aarch64.rpm dpdk-debugsource-21.11.2-1.el9_1.aarch64.rpm dpdk-devel-21.11.2-1.el9_1.aarch64.rpm dpdk-tools-21.11.2-1.el9_1.aarch64.rpm
noarch: dpdk-doc-21.11.2-1.el9_1.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: dpdk-21.11.2-1.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm dpdk-debuginfo-21.11.2-1.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm dpdk-debugsource-21.11.2-1.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm dpdk-devel-21.11.2-1.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm dpdk-tools-21.11.2-1.el9_1.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: dpdk-21.11.2-1.el9_1.x86_64.rpm dpdk-debuginfo-21.11.2-1.el9_1.x86_64.rpm dpdk-debugsource-21.11.2-1.el9_1.x86_64.rpm dpdk-devel-21.11.2-1.el9_1.x86_64.rpm dpdk-tools-21.11.2-1.el9_1.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-2022:8263-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:8263
Issue date: 2022-11-15

Topic

An update for dpdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.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 DoS attack Red Hat Enterprise Linux security impact important update dpdk data plane development

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 9) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2025882 - CVE-2021-3839 DPDK: out-of-bounds read/write in vhost_user_set_inflight_fd() may lead to crash

2070583 - update dpdk spec file to use Epoch: 2 [rhel-9.1.0]

2099475 - CVE-2022-2132 dpdk: DoS when a Vhost header crosses more than two descriptors and exhausts all mbufs

2123549 - CVE-2022-28199 dpdk: error recovery in mlx5 driver not handled properly, allowing for denial of service

2126159 - [Rebase] Rebase to DPDK 21.11.2

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