CVE-2018-1059
The DPDK vhost-user interface does not check to verify that all the requested guest physical range is mapped and contiguous when performing Guest Physical Addresses to Host Virtual Addresses translations. This may lead to a malicious guest exposing vhost-user backend process memory.
Find out more about CVE-2018-1059 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.
Statement
Red Hat OpenStack Platform versions 7 to 9 provided openvswitch-dpdk as a technical preview for customers, it was provided without support and is not intended on being deployed in production.
Red Hat Ceph Storage version 3 provides ceph bundled with DPDK as a technical preview for customers. It was provided without support and is not intended on being deployed in production.
CVSS v3 metrics
| CVSS3 Base Score | 6.1 |
|---|---|
| CVSS3 Base Metrics | CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N |
| Attack Vector | Adjacent Network |
| Attack Complexity | High |
| Privileges Required | None |
| User Interaction | None |
| Scope | Changed |
| Confidentiality | High |
| Integrity Impact | None |
| Availability Impact | None |
Red Hat Security Errata
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras (dpdk) | RHSA-2018:2038 | 2018-06-26 |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (openvswitch) | RHSA-2018:2102 | 2018-06-28 |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 (openvswitch) | RHSA-2018:2524 | 2018-08-20 |
Affected Packages State
| Platform | Package | State |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat Virtualization 4 | openvswitch | Affected |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 | openvswitch-dpdk | Will not fix |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) | openvswitch-dpdk | Will not fix |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens) | openvswitch | Affected |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11.0 (Ocata) | openvswitch | Will not fix |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11.0 (Ocata) | dpdk | Will not fix |
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 | dpdk | Affected |
| Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3 | openvswitch | Affected |
| Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7 | openvswitch-dpdk | Will not fix |
| Red Hat Ceph Storage 3 | dpdk | Will not fix |