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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2018-1267-01 Moderate Openvswitch Data Leak

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Explore the new Red Hat notification regarding openvswitch containing moderate security concerns and crucial patches.
An update for openvswitch is now available for Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Solution

For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes described in this advisory, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Summary

Open vSwitch provides standard network bridging functions and support for the OpenFlow protocol for remote per-flow control of traffic.
Security Fix(es):
* dpdk: Information exposure in unchecked guest physical to host virtual address translations (CVE-2018-1059)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
This issue was discovered by Maxime Coquelin (Red Hat).
Bug Fix(es):
* The openvswitch packages have been upgraded to upstream version 2.9.0, which provides a number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version. (BZ#1560628)

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate bug fix information exposure openvswitch Fast Datapath

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-1059 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Channel to provide early releases to layered products:
Source: openvswitch-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.src.rpm
noarch: openvswitch-test-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.noarch.rpm python-openvswitch-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.noarch.rpm
x86_64: openvswitch-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm openvswitch-debuginfo-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm openvswitch-devel-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm openvswitch-ovn-central-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm openvswitch-ovn-common-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm openvswitch-ovn-host-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm openvswitch-ovn-vtep-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and details on how to verify the signature are available from https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/


Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:1267-01
Product: Fast Datapath
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1267
Issue date: 2018-04-30

Topic

An update for openvswitch is now available for Fast Datapath for Red HatEnterprise Linux 7.Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, whichgives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability fromthe CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate bug fix information exposure openvswitch Fast Datapath

Relevant Releases Architectures

Channel to provide early releases to layered products - noarch, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1544298 - CVE-2018-1059 dpdk: Information exposure in unchecked guest physical to host virtual address translations

1560628 - [fdProd] Align to fdNext 2.9.0-19

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