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Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package dpdk  (opens in a new tab)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU2004-DPDK-642658
  • published12 Nov 2019
  • disclosed14 Nov 2019
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Introduced: 12 Nov 2019

CVE-2019-14818  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-772  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:20.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream dpdk package and not the dpdk package as distributed by Ubuntu.

A flaw was found in all dpdk version 17.x.x before 17.11.8, 16.x.x before 16.11.10, 18.x.x before 18.11.4 and 19.x.x before 19.08.1 where a malicious master, or a container with access to vhost_user socket, can send specially crafted VRING_SET_NUM messages, resulting in a memory leak including file descriptors. This flaw could lead to a denial of service condition.