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Red Hat Enterprise Linux: RHSA-2023-0689-01 Moderate: Openvswitch Issues

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Calendar Grey February 9, 2023
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Ubuntu releases a critical patch for kernel version 5.4 addressing significant vulnerabilities, incorporating vital security improvements and enhancements.
An update for openvswitch2.16 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):
* openvswitch: Out-of-Bounds Read in Organization Specific TLV (CVE-2022-4337) * openvswitch: Integer Underflow in Organization Specific TLV (CVE-2022-4338)
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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Red Hat Enterprise Linux out-of-bounds read openvswitch fast datapath

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4337 https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2022-4338 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate

Package List

Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8:
Source: openvswitch2.16-2.16.0-111.el8fdp.src.rpm
aarch64: network-scripts-openvswitch2.16-2.16.0-111.el8fdp.aarch64.rpm openvswitch2.16-2.16.0-111.el8fdp.aarch64.rpm openvswitch2.16-debuginfo-2.16.0-111.el8fdp.aarch64.rpm openvswitch2.16-debugsource-2.16.0-111.el8fdp.aarch64.rpm openvswitch2.16-devel-2.16.0-111.el8fdp.aarch64.rpm openvswitch2.16-ipsec-2.16.0-111.el8fdp.aarch64.rpm python3-openvswitch2.16-2.16.0-111.el8fdp.aarch64.rpm python3-openvswitch2.16-debuginfo-2.16.0-111.el8fdp.aarch64.rpm
noarch: openvswitch2.16-test-2.16.0-111.el8fdp.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: network-scripts-openvswitch2.16-2.16.0-111.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch2.16-2.16.0-111.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch2.16-debuginfo-2.16.0-111.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch2.16-debugsource-2.16.0-111.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch2.16-devel-2.16.0-111.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch2.16-ipsec-2.16.0-111.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm python3-openvswitch2.16-2.16.0-111.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm python3-openvswitch2.16-debuginfo-2.16.0-111.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: network-scripts-openvswitch2.16-2.16.0-111.el8fdp.s390x.rpm openvswitch2.16-2.16.0-111.el8fdp.s390x.rpm openvswitch2.16-debuginfo-2.16.0-111.el8fdp.s390x.rpm openvswitch2.16-debugsource-2.16.0-111.el8fdp.s390x.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:0689-01
Product: Fast Datapath
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0689
Issue date: 2023-02-09

Topic

An update for openvswitch2.16 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.

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate security update Red Hat Enterprise Linux out-of-bounds read openvswitch fast datapath

Relevant Releases Architectures

Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 - aarch64, noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64

Bugs Fixed

2155378 - CVE-2022-4337 openvswitch: Out-of-Bounds Read in Organization Specific TLV

2155381 - CVE-2022-4338 openvswitch: Integer Underflow in Organization Specific TLV

2162031 - [23.A RHEL-8] Fast Datapath Release

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