Bug 1737327 (CVE-2019-14818) - CVE-2019-14818 dpdk: possible memory leak leads to denial of service
Summary: CVE-2019-14818 dpdk: possible memory leak leads to denial of service
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Status: CLOSED ERRATA
Alias: CVE-2019-14818
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
QA Contact: Jean-Tsung Hsiao
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Depends On: 1760240 1760241 1760242 1760243 1760244 1760245 1760246 1760247 1760248 1760249 1771929 1771930 1773779 1773780 1773781 1773782 1777135 1777136 1793219
Blocks: 1731363
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2019-08-05 06:19 UTC by Dhananjay Arunesh
Modified: 2022-10-02 21:49 UTC (History)
42 users (show)

Fixed In Version: dpdk 17.11.8, dpdk 16.11.10, dpdk 18.11.4, dpdk 19.08.1
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Doc Text:
A flaw was found in dpdk 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.
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Last Closed: 2020-01-21 08:09:31 UTC
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System ID Private Priority Status Summary Last Updated
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:0165 0 None None None 2020-01-21 06:33:54 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:0166 0 None None None 2020-01-21 06:34:14 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:0168 0 None None None 2020-01-21 16:04:56 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:0171 0 None None None 2020-01-22 04:02:48 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:0172 0 None None None 2020-01-22 04:03:49 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:1226 0 None None None 2020-04-01 00:25:11 UTC
Red Hat Product Errata RHSA-2020:1735 0 None None None 2020-04-28 15:46:17 UTC

Description Dhananjay Arunesh 2019-08-05 06:19:47 UTC 
A vulnerability was found in dpdk where a malicious master keep sending VRING_SET_NUM message, all  the above memory will be leaked, and result a DOS finally since ret_malloc() won't allocate any memory.
Comment 6 Joshua Padman 2019-08-27 10:29:38 UTC 
Acknowledgments:

Name: Jason Wang (Red Hat)
Comment 8 Joshua Padman 2019-10-13 23:03:53 UTC 
Statement:

The dpdk package within Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 has been superseded by the version included with RHEL Extras, fixes for dpdk will be consumed from here.
Comment 9 Joshua Padman 2019-11-13 09:23:58 UTC 
External References:

https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=363
Comment 10 Joshua Padman 2019-11-13 09:25:28 UTC 
Commits:
main repo
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=612e17cf6d7b
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk/commit/?id=bf472259dde6

19.08.1
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable/commit/?h=19.08&id=fa674d08985f
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable/commit/?h=19.08&id=6547dd563ea9

18.11.4 (LTS)
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable/commit/?h=18.11&id=70583a6b9b1c
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable/commit/?h=18.11&id=f8898927bb16

17.11.8 (LTS)
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable/commit/?h=17.11&id=3b1b44a1c82a
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable/commit/?h=17.11&id=8a8dbd0ec19e
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable/commit/?h=17.11&id=1f6147d9a01f

16.11.10 (LTS EOL)
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable/commit/?h=16.11&id=5fbb5c2919b6
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable/commit/?h=16.11&id=3863340f93b8
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable/commit/?h=16.11&id=8790f4c3bcd2
https://git.dpdk.org/dpdk-stable/commit/?h=16.11&id=1bf11cfb7c7c
Comment 11 Joshua Padman 2019-11-13 09:35:51 UTC 
Created dpdk tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1771929]


Created openvswitch tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: openstack-rdo [bug 1771930]
Comment 25 errata-xmlrpc 2020-01-21 06:33:51 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Fast Datapath for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2020:0165 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0165
Comment 26 errata-xmlrpc 2020-01-21 06:34:12 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Fast Datapath for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2020:0166 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0166
Comment 27 Product Security DevOps Team 2020-01-21 08:09:31 UTC 
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-14818
Comment 28 errata-xmlrpc 2020-01-21 16:04:54 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Fast Datapath for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2020:0168 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0168
Comment 29 errata-xmlrpc 2020-01-22 04:02:46 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Fast Datapath for RHEL 8

Via RHSA-2020:0171 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0171
Comment 30 errata-xmlrpc 2020-01-22 04:03:47 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Fast Datapath for RHEL 8

Via RHSA-2020:0172 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0172
Comment 31 errata-xmlrpc 2020-04-01 00:25:08 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 Extras

Via RHSA-2020:1226 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1226
Comment 32 errata-xmlrpc 2020-04-28 15:46:14 UTC 
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8

Via RHSA-2020:1735 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:1735
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