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Fedora 26: 2017-45625fecca critical: Open vSwitch Network Threats

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Calendar Grey October 16, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
An important patch for Open vSwitch has been released to fix various security loopholes affecting Fedora 26. Detailed upgrade guidelines are included.
Add a symlink of the OCF script in the OCF resources folder ---- Updated to Open vSwitch 2.7.3 and DPDK 16.11.3 for CVE-2017-14970 ---- Security fix for CVE-2017-9263, CVE-2017-926...

Summary

Open vSwitch provides standard network bridging functions and

support for the OpenFlow protocol for remote per-flow control of

traffic.

Add a symlink of the OCF script in the OCF resources folder ---- Updated to

Open vSwitch 2.7.3 and DPDK 16.11.3 for CVE-2017-14970 ---- Security fix for

CVE-2017-9263, CVE-2017-9265 ---- Updated to Open vSwitch 2.7.1 and DPDK

16.11.2 (#1468234)

[ 1 ] Bug #1497966 - CVE-2017-14970 openvswitch: Multiple memory leaks in lib/ofp-util.c while parsing malformed OpenFlow group mod messages

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1497966

[ 2 ] Bug #1457327 - CVE-2017-9263 openvswitch: Invalid processing of a malicious OpenFlow role status message

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1457327

[ 3 ] Bug #1457335 - CVE-2017-9265 openvswitch: Buffer over-read while parsing the group mod OpenFlow message

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1457335

su -c 'dnf upgrade openvswitch' at the command line.

For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 26
Version: 2.7.3
Release: 2.fc26
Summary: Open vSwitch daemon/database/utilities

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