SB2022052515 - Denial of service in DPDK
Published: May 25, 2022
Security Bulletin ID
SB2022052515
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2022-0669)
The vulnerability allows a local user to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to DPDK incorrectly handles inflight type messages. A local user can exhaust available fd in the vhost-user slave process and perform a denial of service attack.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.