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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 RHSA-2023-0172-01 Important DPDK DoS Threat

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Calendar Grey January 16, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A vital security patch for dpdk in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 addresses significant vulnerabilities related to existing exploits.
An update for dpdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0 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: DoS when a Vhost header crosses more than two descriptors and exhausts all mbufs (CVE-2022-2132)
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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux DoS threat security impact important update dpdk

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-2132 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.0):
Source: dpdk-21.11-2.el9_0.src.rpm
aarch64: dpdk-21.11-2.el9_0.aarch64.rpm dpdk-debuginfo-21.11-2.el9_0.aarch64.rpm dpdk-debugsource-21.11-2.el9_0.aarch64.rpm dpdk-devel-21.11-2.el9_0.aarch64.rpm dpdk-tools-21.11-2.el9_0.aarch64.rpm
noarch: dpdk-doc-21.11-2.el9_0.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: dpdk-21.11-2.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm dpdk-debuginfo-21.11-2.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm dpdk-debugsource-21.11-2.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm dpdk-devel-21.11-2.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm dpdk-tools-21.11-2.el9_0.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: dpdk-21.11-2.el9_0.x86_64.rpm dpdk-debuginfo-21.11-2.el9_0.x86_64.rpm dpdk-debugsource-21.11-2.el9_0.x86_64.rpm dpdk-devel-21.11-2.el9_0.x86_64.rpm dpdk-tools-21.11-2.el9_0.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-2023:0172-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0172
Issue date: 2023-01-16

Topic

An update for dpdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.0Extended 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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux DoS threat security impact important update dpdk

Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v.9.0) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

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