Information disclosure in DPDK - CVE-2018-1059

Vulnerability identifier: #VU12658

CSH Severity: Low

CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]

CVE-ID: CVE-2018-1059

CWE-ID: CWE-200

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

The vulnerability allows an adjacent attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information on the target system.

The weakness exists in the DPDK vhost-user interface due to improper check to verify that all the requested guest physical range is mapped and contiguous when performing Guest Physical Addresses to Host Virtual Addresses translations. An adjacent attacker can gain access to vhost-user backend process memory.

DPDK
Red Hat Virtualization
Red Hat Virtualization Manager
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power
Fedora
Opensuse
Red Hat OpenStack
Red Hat OpenStack for IBM Power
openSUSE Leap
openvswitch (Red Hat package)
dpdk

Update to version 18.02.1.

openvswitch (Red Hat package) - update to 2.9.0-19.el7fdp
dpdk - addressed in versions 17.08.2-1.fc27, 17.11.2-1.fc28

• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1544298

• Information disclosure in DPDK
• Red Hat update for DPDK
• OpenSUSE Linux update for dpdk-thunderxdpdk
• Red Hat update for dpdk
• Red Hat update for DPDK
• Red Hat update for dpdk
• OpenSUSE Linux update for dpdk
• Red Hat Virtualization Manager 4.2 update for openvswitch
• Fedora 27 update for dpdk
• Fedora 28 update for dpdk