Important: dpdk security and bug fix update

Topic

An update for dpdk is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.

Security Fix(es):

• dpdk: DoS when a Vhost header crosses more than two descriptors and exhausts all mbufs (CVE-2022-2132)
• DPDK: out-of-bounds read/write in vhost_user_set_inflight_fd() may lead to crash (CVE-2021-3839)
• dpdk: error recovery in mlx5 driver not handled properly, allowing for denial of service (CVE-2022-28199)

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.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 Release Notes linked from 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 for x86_64 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, little endian 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM 64 9 aarch64

Fixes

• BZ - 2025882 - CVE-2021-3839 DPDK: out-of-bounds read/write in vhost_user_set_inflight_fd() may lead to crash
• BZ - 2070583 - update dpdk spec file to use Epoch: 2 [rhel-9.1.0]
• BZ - 2099475 - CVE-2022-2132 dpdk: DoS when a Vhost header crosses more than two descriptors and exhausts all mbufs
• BZ - 2123549 - CVE-2022-28199 dpdk: error recovery in mlx5 driver not handled properly, allowing for denial of service
• BZ - 2126159 - [Rebase] Rebase to DPDK 21.11.2

CVEs

• CVE-2021-3839
• CVE-2022-2132
• CVE-2022-28199

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
• https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/9/html/9.1_release_notes/index