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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
08/29/2022

Description

Details for this vulnerability have not been published by NIST at this point. Descriptions from software vendor advisories for this issue are provided below.

From USN-5401-1:

Wenxiang Qian discovered that DPDK incorrectly checked certain payloads. An attacker could use this issue to cause DPDK to crash, resulting in a denial of service, or possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2021-3839)

It was discovered that DPDK incorrectly handled inflight type messages. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause DPDK to consume resources, leading to a denial of service. (CVE-2022-0669)

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-dpdk

References

  • USN-5401-1
  • CVE-2021-3839

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