DSA-5130-1 dpdk -- security update

Debian Security Advisory

DSA-5130-1 dpdk -- security update

Date Reported:

05 May 2022

Affected Packages:

dpdk

Vulnerable:

Yes

Security database references:

In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2021-3839, CVE-2022-0669.

More information:

Two vulnerabilities were discovered in the vhost code of DPDK, a set of libraries for fast packet processing, which could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code.

The oldstable distribution (buster) is not affected.

For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 20.11.5-1~deb11u1.

We recommend that you upgrade your dpdk packages.

For the detailed security status of dpdk please refer to its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/dpdk