Out-of-Bounds Affecting DPDK/dpdk package, versions [,22.03-rc4)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.12% (48th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-DPDKDPDK-2808184
  • published4 May 2022
  • disclosed29 Apr 2022
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 Apr 2022

CVE-2021-3839  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade DPDK/dpdk to version 22.03-rc4 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds via the vhost_user_set_inflight_fd() function, due to improper validation of msg->payload.inflight.num_queues. Any software using DPDK vhost library may crash as a result of this vulnerability.

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