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RedHat 9: RHSA-2023-0691 Moderate: Openvswitch2.17 Security Issues

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Calendar Grey February 9, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Red Hat has issued a moderate security update for Open vSwitch 2.17, addressing critical bugs affecting networking performance and reliability in enterprises
An update for openvswitch2.17 is now available for Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9

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 network security red hat bug fix 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 9:
Source: openvswitch2.17-2.17.0-62.el9fdp.src.rpm
aarch64: openvswitch2.17-2.17.0-62.el9fdp.aarch64.rpm openvswitch2.17-debuginfo-2.17.0-62.el9fdp.aarch64.rpm openvswitch2.17-debugsource-2.17.0-62.el9fdp.aarch64.rpm openvswitch2.17-devel-2.17.0-62.el9fdp.aarch64.rpm openvswitch2.17-ipsec-2.17.0-62.el9fdp.aarch64.rpm python3-openvswitch2.17-2.17.0-62.el9fdp.aarch64.rpm python3-openvswitch2.17-debuginfo-2.17.0-62.el9fdp.aarch64.rpm
noarch: openvswitch2.17-test-2.17.0-62.el9fdp.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: openvswitch2.17-2.17.0-62.el9fdp.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch2.17-debuginfo-2.17.0-62.el9fdp.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch2.17-debugsource-2.17.0-62.el9fdp.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch2.17-devel-2.17.0-62.el9fdp.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch2.17-ipsec-2.17.0-62.el9fdp.ppc64le.rpm python3-openvswitch2.17-2.17.0-62.el9fdp.ppc64le.rpm python3-openvswitch2.17-debuginfo-2.17.0-62.el9fdp.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: openvswitch2.17-2.17.0-62.el9fdp.s390x.rpm openvswitch2.17-debuginfo-2.17.0-62.el9fdp.s390x.rpm openvswitch2.17-debugsource-2.17.0-62.el9fdp.s390x.rpm openvswitch2.17-devel-2.17.0-62.el9fdp.s390x.rpm openvswitch2.17-ipsec-2.17.0-62.el9fdp.s390x.rpm python3-openvswitch2.17-2.17.0-62.el9fdp.s390x.rpm

Read the Full Advisory


Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:0691-01
Product: Fast Datapath
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:0691
Issue date: 2023-02-09

Topic

An update for openvswitch2.17 is now available for Fast Datapath for RedHat Enterprise Linux 9.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 network security red hat bug fix openvswitch fast datapath

Relevant Releases Architectures

Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 - 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

2159419 - [ovs2.11][RHEL7.7] PF/VF Port statistics get over-run in OVS offload datapath

2162035 - [23.A RHEL-9] Fast Datapath Release

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