dpdk up to 16.11.9/17.11.7/18.11.3/19.08.0 File Descriptor resource consumption

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability was found in dpdk up to 16.11.9/17.11.7/18.11.3/19.08.0. It has been declared as problematic. Impacted is an unknown function of the component File Descriptor Handler. Such manipulation leads to resource consumption. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2019-14818. The attack may be launched remotely. There is no exploit available. It is recommended to upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in dpdk up to 16.11.9/17.11.7/18.11.3/19.08.0 and classified as problematic. Affected by this issue is some unknown processing of the component File Descriptor Handler. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a resource consumption vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-400. The product does not properly control the allocation and maintenance of a limited resource, thereby enabling an actor to influence the amount of resources consumed, eventually leading to the exhaustion of available resources. Impacted is availability. CVE summarizes:

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.

The weakness was shared 11/14/2019 as not defined bug report (Bugzilla). The advisory is available at bugzilla.redhat.com. This vulnerability is handled as CVE-2019-14818 since 08/10/2019. The attack may be launched remotely. No form of authentication is required for exploitation. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not available. This vulnerability is assigned to T1499 by the MITRE ATT&CK project.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 208584 (CentOS 7 : dpdk (RHSA-2020:1226)), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 16.11.10, 17.11.8, 18.11.4 or 19.08.1 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the vulnerability database at Tenable (208584). If you want to get best quality of vulnerability data, you may have to visit VulDB.

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• dpdk

Version

• 16.11.0
• 16.11.1
• 16.11.2
• 16.11.3
• 16.11.4
• 16.11.5
• 16.11.6
• 16.11.7
• 16.11.8
• 16.11.9
• 17.11.0
• 17.11.1
• 17.11.2
• 17.11.3
• 17.11.4
• 17.11.5
• 17.11.6
• 17.11.7
• 18.11.0
• 18.11.1
• 18.11.2
• 18.11.3
• 19.08

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