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RedHat: RHSA-2020-2296-01 Moderate: openvswitch2.11 Security Issues

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Calendar Grey May 26, 2020
Dist Redhat Esm H88
A recent update for openvswitch2.11 on Red Hat introduces several important security improvements alongside various bug fixes and detailed guidelines.
An update for openvswitch2.11 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: librte_vhost Interger overflow in vhost_user_set_log_base() (CVE-2020-10722)
* dpdk: librte_vhost Integer truncation in vhost_user_check_and_alloc_queue_pair() (CVE-2020-10723)
* dpdk: librte_vhost Missing inputs validation in Vhost-crypto (CVE-2020-10724)
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):
* [RHEL7] Update OVS 2.11 to last branch-2.11 commit and DPDK 18.11.7 (BZ#1822653)
* [RHEL7] ingress qdisc gets removed (BZ#1826826)

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate bug fix redhat openvswitch network bridging datapath

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10722 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10723 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10724 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7:
Source: openvswitch2.11-2.11.0-54.20200327gita4efc59.el7fdp.src.rpm
noarch: openvswitch2.11-test-2.11.0-54.20200327gita4efc59.el7fdp.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: openvswitch2.11-2.11.0-54.20200327gita4efc59.el7fdp.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch2.11-debuginfo-2.11.0-54.20200327gita4efc59.el7fdp.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch2.11-devel-2.11.0-54.20200327gita4efc59.el7fdp.ppc64le.rpm python-openvswitch2.11-2.11.0-54.20200327gita4efc59.el7fdp.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: openvswitch2.11-2.11.0-54.20200327gita4efc59.el7fdp.s390x.rpm openvswitch2.11-debuginfo-2.11.0-54.20200327gita4efc59.el7fdp.s390x.rpm openvswitch2.11-devel-2.11.0-54.20200327gita4efc59.el7fdp.s390x.rpm python-openvswitch2.11-2.11.0-54.20200327gita4efc59.el7fdp.s390x.rpm
x86_64: openvswitch2.11-2.11.0-54.20200327gita4efc59.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm openvswitch2.11-debuginfo-2.11.0-54.20200327gita4efc59.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm openvswitch2.11-devel-2.11.0-54.20200327gita4efc59.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm python-openvswitch2.11-2.11.0-54.20200327gita4efc59.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-2020:2296-01
Product: Fast Datapath
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2296
Issue date: 2020-05-26

Topic

An update for openvswitch2.11 is now available for Fast Datapath for RedHat Enterprise 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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate bug fix redhat openvswitch network bridging datapath

Relevant Releases Architectures

Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 - noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1822653 - [RHEL7] Update OVS 2.11 to last branch-2.11 commit and DPDK 18.11.7

1828867 - CVE-2020-10722 dpdk: librte_vhost Interger overflow in vhost_user_set_log_base()

1828874 - CVE-2020-10723 dpdk: librte_vhost Integer truncation in vhost_user_check_and_alloc_queue_pair()

1828884 - CVE-2020-10724 dpdk: librte_vhost Missing inputs validation in Vhost-crypto

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