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Red Hat: RHSA-2020-0168-01 Moderate: openvswitch2.12 DoS Risk

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Calendar Grey January 21, 2020
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The advisory from Red Hat addresses the moderate security implications associated with the openvswitch2.12 update along with its various bug resolutions.
An update for openvswitch2.12 is now available for Fast Datapath for RHEL 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: possible memory leak leads to denial of service (CVE-2019-14818)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.
Bug Fix(es):
* measure the time needed by ovn-controller to resync to a new SB db (BZ#1720653)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat bug fix DoS Moderate openvswitch Fast Datapath

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14818 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Channel to provide early releases to layered products:
Source: openvswitch2.12-2.12.0-12.el7fdp.src.rpm
noarch: openvswitch2.12-test-2.12.0-12.el7fdp.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: openvswitch2.12-2.12.0-12.el7fdp.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch2.12-debuginfo-2.12.0-12.el7fdp.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch2.12-devel-2.12.0-12.el7fdp.ppc64le.rpm python-openvswitch2.12-2.12.0-12.el7fdp.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: openvswitch2.12-2.12.0-12.el7fdp.s390x.rpm openvswitch2.12-debuginfo-2.12.0-12.el7fdp.s390x.rpm openvswitch2.12-devel-2.12.0-12.el7fdp.s390x.rpm python-openvswitch2.12-2.12.0-12.el7fdp.s390x.rpm
x86_64: openvswitch2.12-2.12.0-12.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm openvswitch2.12-debuginfo-2.12.0-12.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm openvswitch2.12-devel-2.12.0-12.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm python-openvswitch2.12-2.12.0-12.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:0168-01
Product: Fast Datapath
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0168
Issue date: 2020-01-21

Topic

An update for openvswitch2.12 is now available for Fast Datapath for RHEL7.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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat bug fix DoS Moderate openvswitch Fast Datapath

Relevant Releases Architectures

Channel to provide early releases to layered products - noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1720653 - measure the time needed by ovn-controller to resync to a new SB db

1737327 - CVE-2019-14818 dpdk: possible memory leak leads to denial of service

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