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Red Hat: CVE-2020-10726: CVE-2020-10726 dpdk: librte_vhost VHOST_USER_GET_INFLIGHT_FD message flooding to result in a DoS (Multiple Advisories)

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Red Hat: CVE-2020-10726: CVE-2020-10726 dpdk: librte_vhost VHOST_USER_GET_INFLIGHT_FD message flooding to result in a DoS (Multiple Advisories)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/20/2020
Created
05/27/2020
Added
05/27/2020
Modified
12/15/2023

Description

A vulnerability was found in DPDK versions 19.11 and above. A malicious container that has direct access to the vhost-user socket can keep sending VHOST_USER_GET_INFLIGHT_FD messages, causing a resource leak (file descriptors and virtual memory), which may result in a denial of service.

Solution(s)

  • redhat-upgrade-dpdk
  • redhat-upgrade-dpdk-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-dpdk-debugsource
  • redhat-upgrade-dpdk-devel
  • redhat-upgrade-dpdk-devel-debuginfo
  • redhat-upgrade-dpdk-doc
  • redhat-upgrade-dpdk-tools

References

  • CVE-2020-10726
  • RHSA-2020:4806

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