Moderate: dpdk security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Synopsis

Moderate: dpdk security, bug fix, and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for dpdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

Description

The dpdk packages provide the Data Plane Development Kit, which is a set of libraries and drivers for fast packet processing in the user space.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: dpdk (18.11.5). (BZ#1785678)

Security Fix(es):

• dpdk: possible memory leak leads to denial of service (CVE-2019-14818)
  

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 7 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 7 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1737327 - CVE-2019-14818 dpdk: possible memory leak leads to denial of service
• BZ - 1785678 - [Rebase] Rebase DPDK to 18.11.5

CVEs

• CVE-2019-14818

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate