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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8: RHSA-2022-6503 Update for Openvswitch 2.17 DoS

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Calendar Grey September 13, 2022
Dist Redhat Esm H88
New patch released for openvswitch 2.17 on RHEL 8, classified as moderate security concern and addresses a DoS vulnerability.
An update for openvswitch2.13 is now available for Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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: error recovery in mlx5 driver not handled properly, allowing for denial of service (CVE-2022-28199)
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.

Topics%20covered

Topics Covered

security advisory moderate red hat enterprise DoS fix openvswitch fast datapath

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-28199 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9:
Source: openvswitch2.17-2.17.0-32.4.el9fdp.src.rpm
aarch64: openvswitch2.17-2.17.0-32.4.el9fdp.aarch64.rpm openvswitch2.17-debuginfo-2.17.0-32.4.el9fdp.aarch64.rpm openvswitch2.17-debugsource-2.17.0-32.4.el9fdp.aarch64.rpm openvswitch2.17-devel-2.17.0-32.4.el9fdp.aarch64.rpm openvswitch2.17-ipsec-2.17.0-32.4.el9fdp.aarch64.rpm python3-openvswitch2.17-2.17.0-32.4.el9fdp.aarch64.rpm python3-openvswitch2.17-debuginfo-2.17.0-32.4.el9fdp.aarch64.rpm
noarch: openvswitch2.17-test-2.17.0-32.4.el9fdp.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: openvswitch2.17-2.17.0-32.4.el9fdp.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch2.17-debuginfo-2.17.0-32.4.el9fdp.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch2.17-debugsource-2.17.0-32.4.el9fdp.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch2.17-devel-2.17.0-32.4.el9fdp.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch2.17-ipsec-2.17.0-32.4.el9fdp.ppc64le.rpm python3-openvswitch2.17-2.17.0-32.4.el9fdp.ppc64le.rpm python3-openvswitch2.17-debuginfo-2.17.0-32.4.el9fdp.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: openvswitch2.17-2.17.0-32.4.el9fdp.s390x.rpm openvswitch2.17-debuginfo-2.17.0-32.4.el9fdp.s390x.rpm openvswitch2.17-debugsource-2.17.0-32.4.el9fdp.s390x.rpm openvswitch2.17-devel-2.17.0-32.4.el9fdp.s390x.rpm openvswitch2.17-ipsec-2.17.0-32.4.el9fdp.s390x.rpm python3-openvswitch2.17-2.17.0-32.4.el9fdp.s390x.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2022:6503-01
Product: Fast Datapath
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:6503
Issue date: 2022-09-13

Topic

An update for openvswitch2.13 is now available for Fast Datapath for RedHat Enterprise Linux 8.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 red hat enterprise DoS fix openvswitch fast datapath

Relevant Releases Architectures

Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2123549 - CVE-2022-28199 dpdk: error recovery in mlx5 driver not handled properly, allowing for denial of service

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