USN-4362-1: DPDK vulnerabilities

18 May 2020

Several security issues were fixed in DPDK.

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Releases

Packages

  • dpdk - set of libraries for fast packet processing

Details

It was discovered that DPDK incorrectly handled certain inputs.
An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a crash or
execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2020-10722, CVE-2020-10723,
CVE-2020-10724, CVE-2020-10725, CVE-2020-10726)

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Update instructions

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

Ubuntu 20.04
Ubuntu 19.10
Ubuntu 18.04

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