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Red Hat OpenStack 12.0 RHSA-2018-2524 Moderate: Openvswitch Update

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Calendar Grey August 20, 2018
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New patch released for openvswitch in Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 addressing moderate security vulnerabilities. Discover the details!
An update for openvswitch is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 (Pike)

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).

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate software update OpenStack openvswitch

References

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

Package List

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0:
Source: openvswitch-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.src.rpm
noarch: python-openvswitch-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: openvswitch-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch-debuginfo-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch-ovn-central-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch-ovn-common-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch-ovn-host-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch-ovn-vtep-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: openvswitch-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.x86_64.rpm openvswitch-debuginfo-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.x86_64.rpm openvswitch-ovn-central-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.x86_64.rpm openvswitch-ovn-common-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.x86_64.rpm openvswitch-ovn-host-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.x86_64.rpm openvswitch-ovn-vtep-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.x86_64.rpm
OpenStack 12.0 Tools for RHEL 7:
noarch: openvswitch-test-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.noarch.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-2018:2524-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2524
Issue date: 2018-08-20

Topic

An update for openvswitch is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform12.0 (Pike).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 software update OpenStack openvswitch

Relevant Releases Architectures

OpenStack 12.0 Tools for RHEL 7 - noarch

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 - noarch, ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

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

1547518 - Need an openvswitch-test package that can be installed along with python-openvswitch from OSP repo [openstack-12]

1561969 - Backport from master OVS for "LACP: check active partner sys id"

1583749 - openvswitch-2.9.0-19.el7fdp installs /var/log/openvswitch with permissions 0755 [openstack-12]

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