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Ubuntu: USN-5401-1 (CVE-2021-3839): DPDK vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-5401-1 (CVE-2021-3839): DPDK vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/04/2022
Created
05/07/2022
Added
05/05/2022
Modified
03/22/2023

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-dpdk

References

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