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Red Hat OpenStack 10.0 RHSA-2021:2205-01 Critical Openvswitch Fix

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Calendar Grey June 2, 2021
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Essential patch now released for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0, resolving significant vulnerabilities in openvswitch.
An update for openvswitch is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (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):
* buffer overflow in the lldp_decode function in daemon/protocols/lldp.c (CVE-2015-8011)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page listed in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory network security buffer overflow critical security fix Red Hat OpenStack

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2015-8011 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#important

Package List

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0:
Source: openvswitch-2.9.9-1.el7fdp.src.rpm
ppc64le: openvswitch-debuginfo-2.9.9-1.el7fdp.ppc64le.rpm python-openvswitch-2.9.9-1.el7fdp.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64: openvswitch-2.9.9-1.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm openvswitch-debuginfo-2.9.9-1.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm openvswitch-devel-2.9.9-1.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm python-openvswitch-2.9.9-1.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm
OpenStack 10.0 Tools for RHEL 7:
Source: openvswitch-2.9.9-1.el7fdp.src.rpm
noarch: openvswitch-test-2.9.9-1.el7fdp.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


Severity
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Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:2205-01
Product: Red Hat OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2205
Issue date: 2021-06-02

Topic

An update for openvswitch is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform10 (Newton).Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impactof Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerabilityfrom the CVE link(s) in the References section.

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Topics Covered

security advisory network security buffer overflow critical security fix Red Hat OpenStack

Relevant Releases Architectures

OpenStack 10.0 Tools for RHEL 7 - noarch

Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 - ppc64le, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

1896536 - CVE-2015-8011 lldpd: buffer overflow in the lldp_decode function in daemon/protocols/lldp.c

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