From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
To: dpdk-dev <dev@dpdk.org>
Cc: security@dpdk.org, security-prerelease@dpdk.org,
dpdk-announce <announce@dpdk.org>,
Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [dpdk-announce] DPDK security advisory: CVE-2019-14818
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 15:35:51 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <71cc363c-b363-d6e1-87d6-3bb30a3587ef@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b45c3416-0b1d-0ee4-89eb-c23a69e7cef3@intel.com>
On 11/12/2019 3:15 PM, Ferruh Yigit wrote:
> A vulnerability was fixed in DPDK.
>
> Some downstream stakeholders were warned in advance in order to coordinate the
> release of fixes and reduce the vulnerability window.
>
> Problem:
> A malicious container which has direct access to the vhost-user socket can keep
> sending messages which may cause leaking resources until resulting a DOS.
>
> All users of the vhost library are strongly encouraged to upgrade as soon as
> possible.
>
> CVE-2019-14818
> Bugzilla: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363
> Severity: Medium
> CVSS scores: 6.8
And thanks to the "Jason Wang" [1] for reporting the vulnerability, all credits
for discovering the issue goes to him.
[1]
Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
next parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-12 15:35 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <b45c3416-0b1d-0ee4-89eb-c23a69e7cef3@intel.com>
2019-11-12 15:35 ` Ferruh Yigit [this message]
2019-11-14 11:25 ` [dpdk-announce] [dpdk-security] " Ferruh Yigit
2019-11-15 18:19 ` Ferruh Yigit
2019-11-12 15:04 [dpdk-announce] " Ferruh Yigit
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