[dpdk-stable] [v18.11 PATCH v2 2/2] vhost: fix possible denial of service by leaking FDs

Kevin Traynor ktraynor at redhat.com
Tue Nov 12 16:29:54 CET 2019


On 12/11/2019 15:19, Maxime Coquelin wrote:
> A malicious Vhost-user master could send in loop hand-crafted
> vhost-user messages containing more file descriptors the
> vhost-user slave expects. Doing so causes the application using
> the vhost-user library to run out of FDs.
> 
> This issue has been assigned CVE-2019-14818
> 
> Fixes: 8f972312b8f4 ("vhost: support vhost-user")
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Coquelin <maxime.coquelin at redhat.com>
> ---

Applied, thanks.



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