DPDK CVE-2021-3839 Release Notice

["Jiang, Cheng1" <cheng1.jiang () intel com>]

A vulnerability was fixed in DPDK.
Some downstream stakeholders were warned in advance
in order to coordinate the release of fixes
and reduce the vulnerability window.

In DPDK Vhost communication, we didn't test if msg->payload.inflight.num_queues is out of bounds in function 
'vhost_user_set_inflight_fd()', and could cause the program to write OOB.

Commits: 6442c329b9d2 on the main branch

CVE: CVE-2021-3839
Bugzilla: https://bugs.dpdk.org/show_bug.cgi?id=657
Severity: 5.2 (Medium)
CVSS scores: 3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:N/I:L/A:L

Thanks
Cheng Jiang, on behalf of the DPDK security team