RHSA-2018:2038 - Security Advisory

Topic

An update for DPDK is now available for Extras for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

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: Information exposure in unchecked guest physical to host virtual address translations (CVE-2018-1059)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

This issue was discovered by Maxime Coquelin (Red Hat).

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power 9 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1544298 - CVE-2018-1059 dpdk: Information exposure in unchecked guest physical to host virtual address translations
• BZ - 1573912 - Backport "net/nfp: fix mbufs releasing when stop or close"

CVEs

• CVE-2018-1059

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate