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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: dpdk security, bug fix and enhancement update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:2038-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux Extras
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2038
Issue date: 2018-06-26
CVE Names: CVE-2018-1059
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1. Summary:
An update for DPDK is now available for Extras for Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7.
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.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras - noarch, ppc64le, x86_64
3. 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: Information exposure in unchecked guest physical to host virtual
address translations (CVE-2018-1059)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in
the References section.
This issue was discovered by Maxime Coquelin (Red Hat).
4. Solution:
For details on how to apply this update, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1544298 - CVE-2018-1059 dpdk: Information exposure in unchecked guest physical to host virtual address translations
1573912 - Backport "net/nfp: fix mbufs releasing when stop or close"
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras:
Source:
dpdk-17.11-11.el7.src.rpm
noarch:
dpdk-doc-17.11-11.el7.noarch.rpm
ppc64le:
dpdk-17.11-11.el7.ppc64le.rpm
dpdk-debuginfo-17.11-11.el7.ppc64le.rpm
dpdk-devel-17.11-11.el7.ppc64le.rpm
dpdk-tools-17.11-11.el7.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64:
dpdk-17.11-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
dpdk-debuginfo-17.11-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
dpdk-devel-17.11-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
dpdk-tools-17.11-11.el7.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1059
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
Copyright 2018 Red Hat, Inc.
