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openSUSE Leap 15.5 SUSE-SU-2023:2250-2 Important: Network Security Fix

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Calendar Grey July 17, 2023
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The latest patch for openvswitch resolves critical memory corruption and buffer management vulnerabilities, thereby improving overall system integrity.
This update for openvswitch fixes the following issues: CVE-2022-4338: Fixed Integer Underflow in Organization Specific TLV (bsc#1206580).

Description

This update for openvswitch fixes the following issues:

* CVE-2022-4338: Fixed Integer Underflow in Organization Specific TLV

(bsc#1206580).

* CVE-2022-4337: Fixed Out-of-Bounds Read in Organization Specific TLV

(bsc#1206581).

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Topics Covered

security advisory patch important out-of-bounds read integer underflow openSUSE network fix

Patch

## Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE Important 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 15.5

zypper in -t patch openSUSE-SLE-15.5-2023-2250=1

Package List

* openSUSE Leap 15.5 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)

* openvswitch-debuginfo-2.14.2-150400.24.6.1

* openvswitch-test-2.14.2-150400.24.6.1

* libopenvswitch-2_14-0-debuginfo-2.14.2-150400.24.6.1

* ovn-central-debuginfo-20.06.2-150400.24.6.1

* libovn-20_06-0-debuginfo-20.06.2-150400.24.6.1

* ovn-vtep-debuginfo-20.06.2-150400.24.6.1

* ovn-debuginfo-20.06.2-150400.24.6.1

* ovn-central-20.06.2-150400.24.6.1

* openvswitch-devel-2.14.2-150400.24.6.1

* ovn-20.06.2-150400.24.6.1

* python3-ovs-2.14.2-150400.24.6.1

* ovn-devel-20.06.2-150400.24.6.1

* openvswitch-2.14.2-150400.24.6.1

* openvswitch-vtep-2.14.2-150400.24.6.1

* libovn-20_06-0-20.06.2-150400.24.6.1

* ovn-docker-20.06.2-150400.24.6.1

* openvswitch-pki-2.14.2-150400.24.6.1

* ovn-host-20.06.2-150400.24.6.1

* libopenvswitch-2_14-0-2.14.2-150400.24.6.1

* ovn-vtep-20.06.2-150400.24.6.1

* openvswitch-test-debuginfo-2.14.2-150400.24.6.1

* ovn-host-debuginfo-20.06.2-150400.24.6.1

* openvswitch-debugsource-2.14.2-150400.24.6.1

* openvswitch-ipsec-2.14.2-150400.24.6.1

*...

Read the Full Advisory

References

* #1206580

* #1206581

## References:

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4337.html

* https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4338.html

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1206580

* https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1206581

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Announcement ID: SUSE-SU-2023:2250-2
Rating: important

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