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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2021-3839: dpdk security update

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Huawei EulerOS: CVE-2021-3839: dpdk security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
08/23/2022
Created
09/14/2022
Added
09/14/2022
Modified
09/14/2022

Description

A flaw was found in the vhost library in DPDK. Function vhost_user_set_inflight_fd() does not validate `msg->payload.inflight.num_queues`, possibly causing out-of-bounds memory read/write. Any software using DPDK vhost library may crash as a result of this vulnerability.

Solution(s)

  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp9-upgrade-dpdk
  • huawei-euleros-2_0_sp9-upgrade-dpdk-tools

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