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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 impact of Important. 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.

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.

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

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 8 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - AUS 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 8 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian - Extended Update Support 8.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - TUS 8.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 8 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 - Extended Update Support 8.4 aarch64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (for IBM Power LE) - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Update Services for SAP Solutions 8.4 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1801361 - dpdk-pmdinfo.py can't work on RHEL8
• BZ - 1813252 - dpdk-devel needs rdma-core-devel and libmnl-devel on x86_64
• BZ - 1824905 - [Rebase] Rebase DPDK to 19.11.1
• BZ - 1828867 - CVE-2020-10722 dpdk: librte_vhost Integer overflow in vhost_user_set_log_base()
• BZ - 1828874 - CVE-2020-10723 dpdk: librte_vhost Integer truncation in vhost_user_check_and_alloc_queue_pair()
• BZ - 1828894 - CVE-2020-10725 dpdk: librte_vhost Malicious guest could cause segfault by sending invalid Virtio descriptor
• BZ - 1828898 - CVE-2020-10726 dpdk: librte_vhost VHOST_USER_GET_INFLIGHT_FD message flooding to result in a DoS
• BZ - 1868708 - Update to dpdk-19.11.3

CVEs

• CVE-2020-10722
• CVE-2020-10723
• CVE-2020-10725
• CVE-2020-10726

References

• 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/