USN-3642-1: DPDK vulnerability

9 May 2018

dpdk vulnerability

A security issue affects these releases of Ubuntu and its derivatives:

Summary

DPDK could be made to expose sensitive information over the network.

Software Description

• dpdk - set of libraries for fast packet processing

Details

Maxime Coquelin discovered that DPDK incorrectly handled guest physical ranges. A malicious guest could use this issue to possibly access sensitive information.

Update instructions

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

dpdk - 17.11.2-1ubuntu0.1

To update your system, please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades.

In general, a standard system update will make all the necessary changes.

References

from Ubuntu Security Notices https://ift.tt/2KLZfHi