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Red Hat: RHSA-2020:0172-01 Moderate: openvswitch2.12 DoS Issue

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Calendar Grey January 21, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Balanced security enhancement for openvswitch2.12 improves RHEL 8 Rapid Datapath, tackling DoS vulnerabilities and resolving issues.
An update for openvswitch2.12 is now available for Fast Datapath for RHEL 8

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):
* ovs-tcpundump doesn't work well on special packet (BZ#1780553)
* ovs-tcpundump -V won't exit (BZ#1780555)
* SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print' (BZ#1780563)
* measure the time needed by ovn-controller to resync to a new SB db (BZ#1780719)

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Topics Covered

security advisory Red Hat bug fix DoS security impact 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.el8fdp.src.rpm
noarch: openvswitch2.12-test-2.12.0-12.el8fdp.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: network-scripts-openvswitch2.12-2.12.0-12.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch2.12-2.12.0-12.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch2.12-debuginfo-2.12.0-12.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch2.12-debugsource-2.12.0-12.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch2.12-devel-2.12.0-12.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm python3-openvswitch2.12-2.12.0-12.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm python3-openvswitch2.12-debuginfo-2.12.0-12.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: network-scripts-openvswitch2.12-2.12.0-12.el8fdp.s390x.rpm openvswitch2.12-2.12.0-12.el8fdp.s390x.rpm openvswitch2.12-debuginfo-2.12.0-12.el8fdp.s390x.rpm openvswitch2.12-debugsource-2.12.0-12.el8fdp.s390x.rpm openvswitch2.12-devel-2.12.0-12.el8fdp.s390x.rpm python3-openvswitch2.12-2.12.0-12.el8fdp.s390x.rpm python3-openvswitch2.12-debuginfo-2.12.0-12.el8fdp.s390x.rpm
x86_64: network-scripts-openvswitch2.12-2.12.0-12.el8fdp.x86_64.rpm openvswitch2.12-2.12.0-12.el8fdp.x86_64.rpm openvswitch2.12-debuginfo-2.12.0-12.el8fdp.x86_64.rpm openvswitch2.12-debugsource-2.12.0-12.el8fdp.x86_64.rpm openvswitch2.12-devel-2.12.0-12.el8fdp.x86_64.rpm python3-openvswitch2.12-2.12.0-12.el8fdp.x86_64.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:0172-01
Product: Fast Datapath
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0172
Issue date: 2020-01-22

Topic

An update for openvswitch2.12 is now available for Fast Datapath for RHEL8.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 security impact openvswitch Fast Datapath

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

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

1780553 - ovs-tcpundump doesn't work well on special packet

1780555 - ovs-tcpundump -V won't exit

1780563 - SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'

1780719 - measure the time needed by ovn-controller to resync to a new SB db

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