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CVE-2022-2132

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.6 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2022-08-31 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-791

Description

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.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 10.0
• DPDK Data Plane Development Kit: before 19.11; from 20.0 before 20.11; from 21.0 before 21.11 — fixed in 19.11, 20.11, 21.11
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 36
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath: 7.0, 8.0, 9.0
• Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.18: 4.0
• nova_libvirt container provided by the Red Hat OpenStack Platform: 13.0
• RedHat Virtualization: 4.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: DPDK Data Plane Development Kit 19.11, 20.11, 21.11. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1031
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2099475
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00000.html
• https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1031
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2099475
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/09/msg00000.html

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