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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-10725: Important: dpdk security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2020-4806)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-10725: Important: dpdk security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2020-4806)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/20/2020
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
05/04/2022

Description

A flaw was found in DPDK version 19.11 and above that allows a malicious guest to cause a segmentation fault of the vhost-user backend application running on the host, which could result in a loss of connectivity for the other guests running on that host. This is caused by a missing validity check of the descriptor address in the function `virtio_dev_rx_batch_packed()`.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-dpdk
  • alma-upgrade-dpdk-devel
  • alma-upgrade-dpdk-doc
  • alma-upgrade-dpdk-tools

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