Important: dpdk security, bug fix, and enhancement update

The dpdk packages provide the Data Plane Development Kit, which is a set of libraries and drivers for fast packet processing in the user space.

The following packages have been upgraded to a later upstream version: dpdk (19.11.3). (BZ#1824905)

Security Fix(es):

• dpdk: librte_vhost Malicious guest could cause segfault by sending invalid Virtio descriptor (CVE-2020-10725)

• dpdk: librte_vhost Integer overflow in vhost_user_set_log_base() (CVE-2020-10722)

• dpdk: librte_vhost Integer truncation in vhost_user_check_and_alloc_queue_pair() (CVE-2020-10723)

• dpdk: librte_vhost VHOST_USER_GET_INFLIGHT_FD message flooding to result in a DoS (CVE-2020-10726)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes:

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the AlmaLinux Release Notes linked from the References section.