RHEL 8 : dpdk (RHSA-2020:4806)

medium Nessus Plugin ID 142390

Synopsis

The remote Red Hat host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2020:4806 advisory.

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 (19.11.3). (BZ#1824905)

Security Fix(es):

* dpdk: librte_vhost Malicious guest could cause segfault by sending invalid Virtio descriptor (CVE-2020-10725)

* dpdk: librte_vhost Integer overflow in vhost_user_set_log_base() (CVE-2020-10722)

* dpdk: librte_vhost Integer truncation in vhost_user_check_and_alloc_queue_pair() (CVE-2020-10723)

* dpdk: librte_vhost VHOST_USER_GET_INFLIGHT_FD message flooding to result in a DoS (CVE-2020-10726)

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 8.3 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected packages.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?50531ee9

http://www.nessus.org/u?b7e37d18

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:4806

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1801361

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1813252

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1824905

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1828867

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1828874

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1828894

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1828898

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1868708

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 142390

File Name: redhat-RHSA-2020-4806.nasl

Version: 1.12

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/4/2020

Updated: 11/7/2024

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.9

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Important

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 4.6

Temporal Score: 3.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2020-10723

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.7

Temporal Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dpdk-devel, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dpdk-tools, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dpdk-doc, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:dpdk, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list, Host/cpu

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/4/2020

Vulnerability Publication Date: 5/19/2020

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2020-10722, CVE-2020-10723, CVE-2020-10725, CVE-2020-10726

CWE: 190, 400, 665

RHSA: 2020:4806