Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.
EUVDB-ID: #VU66871
Risk: Medium
CVSSv3.1: 5.9 [CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2022-2132
CWE-ID:
CWE-399 - Resource Management Errors
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to improper management of internal resources within the copy_desc_to_mbuf() function when processing Vhost header. A remote guest can send a packet with the Vhost header crossing more than two descriptors and force application to allocate all available mbufs, causing a denial of service condition for the other guest running on the hypervisor.
Update the affected package dpdk to the latest version.
Vulnerable software versionsSUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit 12: SP5
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12: SP5
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12: SP5
SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12: SP5
dpdk-kmp-default: before 18.11.9_k4.12.14_122.189-3.29.1
dpdk-kmp-default-debuginfo: before 18.11.9_k4.12.14_122.189-3.29.1
dpdk-thunderx: before 18.11.9-3.29.1
dpdk-thunderx-kmp-default-debuginfo: before 18.11.9_k4.12.14_122.189-3.29.1
dpdk-thunderx-kmp-default: before 18.11.9_k4.12.14_122.189-3.29.1
dpdk-tools-debuginfo: before 18.11.9-3.29.1
libdpdk-18_11-debuginfo: before 18.11.9-3.29.1
dpdk-tools: before 18.11.9-3.29.1
dpdk: before 18.11.9-3.29.1
libdpdk-18_11: before 18.11.9-3.29.1
dpdk-thunderx-devel: before 18.11.9-3.29.1
dpdk-thunderx-debuginfo: before 18.11.9-3.29.1
dpdk-thunderx-debugsource: before 18.11.9-3.29.1
dpdk-thunderx-devel-debuginfo: before 18.11.9-3.29.1
dpdk-devel: before 18.11.9-3.29.1
dpdk-debugsource: before 18.11.9-3.29.1
dpdk-debuginfo: before 18.11.9-3.29.1
dpdk-devel-debuginfo: before 18.11.9-3.29.1
External linkshttp://www.suse.com/support/update/announcement/2024/suse-su-20240554-1/
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote authenticated user via the local network (LAN).
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.