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Red Hat OpenStack 10.0 RHSA-2019-0053-01 Moderate: Openvswitch Security Fix

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Calendar Grey January 16, 2019
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Hash: SHA256 Red Hat Security Advisory Synopsis: Moderate: openvswitch security and bug fix update A
An update for openvswitch is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton)

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):
* openvswitch: Mishandle of group mods in lib/ofp-util.c:parse_group_prop_ntr_selection_method() allows for assertion failure (CVE-2018-17204)
* openvswitch: Error during bundle commit in ofproto/ofproto.c:ofproto_rule_insert__() allows for crash (CVE-2018-17205)
* openvswitch: Buffer over-read in lib/ofp-actions.c:decode_bundle() (CVE-2018-17206)
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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory network security update Moderate Red Hat OpenStack openvswitch

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17204 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17205 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2018-17206 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0:
Source: openvswitch-2.9.0-83.el7fdp.1.src.rpm
ppc64le: openvswitch-debuginfo-2.9.0-83.el7fdp.1.ppc64le.rpm python-openvswitch-2.9.0-83.el7fdp.1.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: openvswitch-2.9.0-83.el7fdp.1.x86_64.rpm openvswitch-debuginfo-2.9.0-83.el7fdp.1.x86_64.rpm openvswitch-devel-2.9.0-83.el7fdp.1.x86_64.rpm openvswitch-ovn-central-2.9.0-83.el7fdp.1.x86_64.rpm openvswitch-ovn-common-2.9.0-83.el7fdp.1.x86_64.rpm openvswitch-ovn-host-2.9.0-83.el7fdp.1.x86_64.rpm openvswitch-ovn-vtep-2.9.0-83.el7fdp.1.x86_64.rpm python-openvswitch-2.9.0-83.el7fdp.1.x86_64.rpm
OpenStack 10.0 Tools for RHEL 7:
noarch: openvswitch-test-2.9.0-83.el7fdp.1.noarch.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2019:0053-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0053
Issue date: 2019-01-16

Topic

An update for openvswitch is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform10.0 (Newton).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 network security update Moderate Red Hat OpenStack openvswitch

Relevant Releases Architectures

OpenStack 10.0 Tools for RHEL 7 - noarch

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 - ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1632522 - CVE-2018-17204 openvswitch: Mishandle of group mods in lib/ofp-util.c:parse_group_prop_ntr_selection_method() allows for assertion failure

1632525 - CVE-2018-17205 openvswitch: Error during bundle commit in ofproto/ofproto.c:ofproto_rule_insert__() allows for crash

1632528 - CVE-2018-17206 openvswitch: Buffer over-read in lib/ofp-actions.c:decode_bundle()

1644383 - Issues with LACP failover - frames dropped in OVS DPDK 2.9 with OSP 10

1651454 - openvswitch package release request including the fix of RHBZ#1526306 for RHOSP10

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