A dpdk security, bug fix, and enhancement update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.
RHSA-2020:1735-01: Moderate: dpdk security, bug fix, and enhancement update
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: dpdk security, bug fix, and enhancement update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:1735-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1735
Issue date: 2020-04-28
CVE Names: CVE-2019-14818
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1. Summary:
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 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.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, x86_64
3. 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). (BZ#1773889)
Security Fix(es):
* dpdk: possible memory leak leads to denial of service (CVE-2019-14818)
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 8.2 Release Notes linked from the References section.
4. 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
5. Bugs fixed ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1737327 - CVE-2019-14818 dpdk: possible memory leak leads to denial of service
1755538 - Use hardening specs to build dpdk-pmdinfogen
1773889 - [Rebase] Rebase DPDK to 19.11
1779229 - Remove dpdk-pdump and dpdk-pmdinfo from dpdk and dpdk-tools packages
1805140 - Remove mlx{4,5} glue library
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8):
Source:
dpdk-19.11-4.el8.src.rpm
aarch64:
dpdk-19.11-4.el8.aarch64.rpm
dpdk-debuginfo-19.11-4.el8.aarch64.rpm
dpdk-debugsource-19.11-4.el8.aarch64.rpm
dpdk-devel-19.11-4.el8.aarch64.rpm
dpdk-devel-debuginfo-19.11-4.el8.aarch64.rpm
dpdk-tools-19.11-4.el8.aarch64.rpm
noarch:
dpdk-doc-19.11-4.el8.noarch.rpm
ppc64le:
dpdk-19.11-4.el8.ppc64le.rpm
dpdk-debuginfo-19.11-4.el8.ppc64le.rpm
dpdk-debugsource-19.11-4.el8.ppc64le.rpm
dpdk-devel-19.11-4.el8.ppc64le.rpm
dpdk-devel-debuginfo-19.11-4.el8.ppc64le.rpm
dpdk-tools-19.11-4.el8.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64:
dpdk-19.11-4.el8.x86_64.rpm
dpdk-debuginfo-19.11-4.el8.x86_64.rpm
dpdk-debugsource-19.11-4.el8.x86_64.rpm
dpdk-devel-19.11-4.el8.x86_64.rpm
dpdk-devel-debuginfo-19.11-4.el8.x86_64.rpm
dpdk-tools-19.11-4.el8.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/
7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14818
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html/8.2_release_notes/index
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is . More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
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