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Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2019-14818: dpdk: possible memory leak leads to denial of service

Name: Red Hat OpenShift: CVE-2019-14818: dpdk: possible memory leak leads to denial of service
Creator: Red Hat
Published: 2019-11-14T00:00:00.000Z
Keywords: CVE, CWE-401, Red Hat OpenShift, 2019, 14818, dpdk, linuxrpm-upgrade-redhat-coreos, Severity 5

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Severity

CVSS

(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

Published

Nov 14, 2019

Added

Dec 29, 2020

Modified

Mar 30, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in all dpdk version 17.x.x before 17.11.8, 16.x.x before 16.11.10, 18.x.x before 18.11.4 and 19.x.x before 19.08.1 where a malicious master, or a container with access to vhost_user socket, can send specially crafted VRING_SET_NUM messages, resulting in a memory leak including file descriptors. This flaw could lead to a denial of service condition.

Solution

linuxrpm-upgrade-redhat-coreos

References

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