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Fedora 27: FEDORA-2017-0d225819cf Moderate: Open vSwitch Memory Leak

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Calendar Grey October 17, 2017
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora 28 patch resolves a potential memory overflow in Open vSwitch 2.9.0 alongside a critical security remediation for CVE-2018-12345.
Update to Open vSwitch 2.8.1 Includes security fix for CVE-2017-14970

Summary

Open vSwitch provides standard network bridging functions and

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

traffic.

Update to Open vSwitch 2.8.1 Includes security fix for CVE-2017-14970

[ 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

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

All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the

GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at

package-announce mailing list -- package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org

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Change Log

References

Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora 27
Version: 2.8.1
Release: 1.fc27
Summary: Open vSwitch daemon/database/utilities

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