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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-10726: Important: dpdk security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2020-4806)

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Alma Linux: CVE-2020-10726: Important: dpdk security, bug fix, and enhancement update (ALSA-2020-4806)

Severity
2
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/20/2020
Created
05/05/2022
Added
05/04/2022
Modified
05/04/2022

Description

A vulnerability was found in DPDK versions 19.11 and above. A malicious container that has direct access to the vhost-user socket can keep sending VHOST_USER_GET_INFLIGHT_FD messages, causing a resource leak (file descriptors and virtual memory), which may result in a denial of service.

Solution(s)

  • alma-upgrade-dpdk
  • alma-upgrade-dpdk-devel
  • alma-upgrade-dpdk-doc
  • alma-upgrade-dpdk-tools

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