SB20200310150 - Red Hat update for OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens) for RHEL 7 



SB20200310150 - Red Hat update for OpenStack Platform 13.0 (Queens) for RHEL 7

Published: March 10, 2020 Updated: May 16, 2021

Security Bulletin ID SB20200310150
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
Exploitation vector Remote access
Highest impact Denial of service

Breakdown by Severity

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Description

This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.


1) Input validation error (CVE-ID: CVE-2019-14818)

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

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.


Remediation

Install update from vendor's website.