NVIDIA’s distribution of the Data Plane Development Kit (MLNX_DPDK) contains a vulnerability in the network stack, where error recovery is not handled properly, which can allow a remote attacker to cause denial of service and some impact to data integrity and confidentiality.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - NVIDIA's distribution of the Data Plane Development Kit (MLNX_DPDK) contains a vulnerability in the     network stack, where error recovery is not handled properly, which can allow a remote attacker to cause     denial of service and some impact to data integrity and confidentiality. (CVE-2022-28199)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

The remote CentOS Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dpdk-21.11.2-1.el9 build changelog.

  - A permissive list of allowed inputs flaw was found in DPDK. This issue allows a remote attacker to cause a     denial of service triggered by sending a crafted Vhost header to DPDK. (CVE-2022-2132)

  - NVIDIA's distribution of the Data Plane Development Kit (MLNX_DPDK) contains a vulnerability in the     network stack, where error recovery is not handled properly, which can allow a remote attacker to cause     denial of service and some impact to data integrity and confidentiality. (CVE-2022-28199)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Rocky Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RLSA-2022:8263 advisory.

  - A flaw was found in the vhost library in DPDK. Function vhost_user_set_inflight_fd() does not validate     `msg->payload.inflight.num_queues`, possibly causing out-of-bounds memory read/write. Any software using     DPDK vhost library may crash as a result of this vulnerability. (CVE-2021-3839)

  - A permissive list of allowed inputs flaw was found in DPDK. This issue allows a remote attacker to cause a     denial of service triggered by sending a crafted Vhost header to DPDK. (CVE-2022-2132)

  - NVIDIA's distribution of the Data Plane Development Kit (MLNX_DPDK) contains a vulnerability in the     network stack, where error recovery is not handled properly, which can allow a remote attacker to cause     denial of service and some impact to data integrity and confidentiality. (CVE-2022-28199)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to the versions of the dpdk packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - A permissive list of allowed inputs flaw was found in DPDK. This issue allows a remote attacker to cause a     denial of service triggered by sending a crafted Vhost header to DPDK. (CVE-2022-2132)

  - NVIDIA's distribution of the Data Plane Development Kit (MLNX_DPDK) contains a vulnerability in the     network stack, where error recovery is not handled properly, which can allow a remote attacker to cause     denial of service and some impact to data integrity and confidentiality. (CVE-2022-28199)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote Oracle Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ELSA-2022-8263 advisory.

    - Includes fixes for CVE-2022-2132 (#2107173) and CVE-2022-28199 (#2123616)

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Oracle Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote AlmaLinux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the ALSA-2022:8263 advisory.

  - A flaw was found in the vhost library in DPDK. Function vhost_user_set_inflight_fd() does not validate     `msg->payload.inflight.num_queues`, possibly causing out-of-bounds memory read/write. Any software using     DPDK vhost library may crash as a result of this vulnerability. (CVE-2021-3839)

  - A permissive list of allowed inputs flaw was found in DPDK. This issue allows a remote attacker to cause a     denial of service triggered by sending a crafted Vhost header to DPDK. (CVE-2022-2132)

  - NVIDIA's distribution of the Data Plane Development Kit (MLNX_DPDK) contains a vulnerability in the     network stack, where error recovery is not handled properly, which can allow a remote attacker to cause     denial of service and some impact to data integrity and confidentiality. (CVE-2022-28199)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2022:8263 advisory.

    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.

    Security Fix(es):

    * dpdk: DoS when a Vhost header crosses more than two descriptors and exhausts all mbufs (CVE-2022-2132)

    * DPDK: out-of-bounds read/write in vhost_user_set_inflight_fd() may lead to crash (CVE-2021-3839)

    * dpdk: error recovery in mlx5 driver not handled properly, allowing for denial of service     (CVE-2022-28199)

    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 Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.1 Release Notes     linked from the References section.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3429-1 advisory.

  - A permissive list of allowed inputs flaw was found in DPDK. This issue allows a remote attacker to cause a     denial of service triggered by sending a crafted Vhost header to DPDK. (CVE-2022-2132)

  - NVIDIA's distribution of the Data Plane Development Kit (MLNX_DPDK) contains a vulnerability in the     network stack, where error recovery is not handled properly, which can allow a remote attacker to cause     denial of service and some impact to data integrity and confidentiality. (CVE-2022-28199)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3390-1 advisory.

  - A permissive list of allowed inputs flaw was found in DPDK. This issue allows a remote attacker to cause a     denial of service triggered by sending a crafted Vhost header to DPDK. (CVE-2022-2132)

  - NVIDIA's distribution of the Data Plane Development Kit (MLNX_DPDK) contains a vulnerability in the     network stack, where error recovery is not handled properly, which can allow a remote attacker to cause     denial of service and some impact to data integrity and confidentiality. (CVE-2022-28199)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote SUSE Linux SLES15 / SLES_SAP15 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2022:3341-1 advisory.

  - A permissive list of allowed inputs flaw was found in DPDK. This issue allows a remote attacker to cause a     denial of service triggered by sending a crafted Vhost header to DPDK. (CVE-2022-2132)

  - NVIDIA's distribution of the Data Plane Development Kit (MLNX_DPDK) contains a vulnerability in the     network stack, where error recovery is not handled properly, which can allow a remote attacker to cause     denial of service and some impact to data integrity and confidentiality. (CVE-2022-28199)

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:6504 advisory.

    Open vSwitch provides standard network bridging functions and support for     the OpenFlow protocol for remote per-flow control of traffic.

    Security Fix(es):

    * dpdk: error recovery in mlx5 driver not handled properly, allowing for     denial of service (CVE-2022-28199)

    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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:6506 advisory.

    Open vSwitch provides standard network bridging functions and support for     the OpenFlow protocol for remote per-flow control of traffic.

    Security Fix(es):

    * dpdk: error recovery in mlx5 driver not handled properly, allowing for     denial of service (CVE-2022-28199)

    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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:6505 advisory.

    Open vSwitch provides standard network bridging functions and support for     the OpenFlow protocol for remote per-flow control of traffic.

    Security Fix(es):

    * dpdk: error recovery in mlx5 driver not handled properly, allowing for     denial of service (CVE-2022-28199)

    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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:6502 advisory.

    Open vSwitch provides standard network bridging functions and support for     the OpenFlow protocol for remote per-flow control of traffic.

    Security Fix(es):

    * dpdk: error recovery in mlx5 driver not handled properly, allowing for denial of service     (CVE-2022-28199)

    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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 9 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2022:6503 advisory.

    Open vSwitch provides standard network bridging functions and support for     the OpenFlow protocol for remote per-flow control of traffic.

    Security Fix(es):

    * dpdk: error recovery in mlx5 driver not handled properly, allowing for     denial of service (CVE-2022-28199)

    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.

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Red Hat Enterprise Linux security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote Debian 11 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the dsa-5222 advisory.

    A buffer overflow was discovered in the vhost code of DPDK, a set of libraries for fast packet processing,     which could result in denial of service or the execution of arbitrary code by malicious guests/containers.
    For the stable distribution (bullseye), these problems have been fixed in version 20.11.6-1~deb11u1. We     recommend that you upgrade your dpdk packages. For the detailed security status of dpdk please refer to     its security tracker page at: https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/dpdk

Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Debian security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
224716	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2022-28199	Nessus	Misc.	medium
191198	CentOS 9 : dpdk-21.11.2-1.el9	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	high
185027	Rocky Linux 9 : dpdk (RLSA-2022:8263)	Nessus	Rocky Linux Local Security Checks	high
169012	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : dpdk (EulerOS-SA-2022-2818)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
168987	EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : dpdk (EulerOS-SA-2022-2843)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
168082	Oracle Linux 9 : dpdk (ELSA-2022-8263)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
167972	AlmaLinux 9 : dpdk (ALSA-2022:8263)	Nessus	Alma Linux Local Security Checks	high
167622	RHEL 9 : dpdk (RHSA-2022:8263)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
167426	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : dpdk (EulerOS-SA-2022-2726)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
167395	EulerOS 2.0 SP9 : dpdk (EulerOS-SA-2022-2761)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
165566	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : dpdk (SUSE-SU-2022:3429-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
165489	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : dpdk (SUSE-SU-2022:3390-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
165420	SUSE SLES15 Security Update : dpdk (SUSE-SU-2022:3341-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
165014	RHEL 8 : openvswitch2.17 (RHSA-2022:6504)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
165013	RHEL 8 : openvswitch2.16 (RHSA-2022:6506)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
165010	RHEL 8 : openvswitch2.15 (RHSA-2022:6505)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
165009	RHEL 8 : openvswitch2.13 (RHSA-2022:6502)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
165008	RHEL 9 : openvswitch2.17 (RHSA-2022:6503)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	medium
164517	Debian DSA-5222-1 : dpdk - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	high

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