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Important openSUSE Leap 15.2 Update: openvswitch DoS Vulnerability Fix

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Calendar Grey February 13, 2021
Dist Opensuse Esm H88
Important openSUSE patch for openvswitch tackles security flaw causing denial of service, promoting improved system reliability and efficiency.
An update that fixes one vulnerability is now available

Description

This update for openvswitch fixes the following issues:

- CVE-2020-35498: Fixed a denial of service related to the handling of

Ethernet padding (bsc#1181742).

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15-SP2:Update update project.

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security fix important memory leak kernel openSUSE openvswitch

Patch

Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use the SUSE recommended installation methods

like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

- openSUSE Leap 15.2:

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-2021-283=1

Package List

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (x86_64):

libopenvswitch-2_13-0-2.13.2-lp152.3.12.1

libopenvswitch-2_13-0-debuginfo-2.13.2-lp152.3.12.1

libovn-20_03-0-20.03.1-lp152.3.12.1

libovn-20_03-0-debuginfo-20.03.1-lp152.3.12.1

openvswitch-2.13.2-lp152.3.12.1

openvswitch-debuginfo-2.13.2-lp152.3.12.1

openvswitch-debugsource-2.13.2-lp152.3.12.1

openvswitch-devel-2.13.2-lp152.3.12.1

openvswitch-ipsec-2.13.2-lp152.3.12.1

openvswitch-pki-2.13.2-lp152.3.12.1

openvswitch-test-2.13.2-lp152.3.12.1

openvswitch-test-debuginfo-2.13.2-lp152.3.12.1

openvswitch-vtep-2.13.2-lp152.3.12.1

openvswitch-vtep-debuginfo-2.13.2-lp152.3.12.1

ovn-20.03.1-lp152.3.12.1

ovn-central-20.03.1-lp152.3.12.1

ovn-central-debuginfo-20.03.1-lp152.3.12.1

ovn-debuginfo-20.03.1-lp152.3.12.1

ovn-devel-20.03.1-lp152.3.12.1

ovn-docker-20.03.1-lp152.3.12.1

ovn-host-20.03.1-lp152.3.12.1

ovn-host-debuginfo-20.03.1-lp152.3.12.1

ovn-vtep-20.03.1-lp152.3.12.1

ovn-vtep-debuginfo-20.03.1-lp152.3.12.1

python3-ovs-2.13.2-lp152.3.12.1

- openSUSE Leap 15.2 (noarch):

openvswitch-doc-2.13...

Read the Full Advisory

References

https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-35498.html

https://bugzilla.suse.com/1181742

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Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2021:0283-1
Rating: important
Affected Products: openSUSE Leap 15.2 .

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Topics Covered

security advisory denial of service security fix important memory leak kernel openSUSE openvswitch

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