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RedHat 8: RHSA-2023-1766-01 Moderate: Openvswitch3.1 Security Fix

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Calendar Grey April 13, 2023
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Significant announcement regarding openvswitch3.1 on Red Hat 8, classified as moderate priority, featuring essential security patches and improvements.
An update for openvswitch3.1 is now available in 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

Users of openvswitch3.1 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fixes these bugs.

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: ip proto 0 triggers incorrect handling (CVE-2023-1668)
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):
* [23.C RHEL-8] Fast Datapath Release (BZ#2177687)

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Topics Covered

security advisory moderate red hat security fix networking openvswitch

References

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-1668 https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification#moderate

Package List

Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8:
Source: openvswitch3.1-3.1.0-17.el8fdp.src.rpm
aarch64: network-scripts-openvswitch3.1-3.1.0-17.el8fdp.aarch64.rpm openvswitch3.1-3.1.0-17.el8fdp.aarch64.rpm openvswitch3.1-debuginfo-3.1.0-17.el8fdp.aarch64.rpm openvswitch3.1-debugsource-3.1.0-17.el8fdp.aarch64.rpm openvswitch3.1-devel-3.1.0-17.el8fdp.aarch64.rpm openvswitch3.1-ipsec-3.1.0-17.el8fdp.aarch64.rpm python3-openvswitch3.1-3.1.0-17.el8fdp.aarch64.rpm python3-openvswitch3.1-debuginfo-3.1.0-17.el8fdp.aarch64.rpm
noarch: openvswitch3.1-test-3.1.0-17.el8fdp.noarch.rpm
ppc64le: network-scripts-openvswitch3.1-3.1.0-17.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch3.1-3.1.0-17.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch3.1-debuginfo-3.1.0-17.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch3.1-debugsource-3.1.0-17.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch3.1-devel-3.1.0-17.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm openvswitch3.1-ipsec-3.1.0-17.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm python3-openvswitch3.1-3.1.0-17.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm python3-openvswitch3.1-debuginfo-3.1.0-17.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm
s390x: network-scripts-openvswitch3.1-3.1.0-17.el8fdp.s390x.rpm openvswitch3.1-3.1.0-17.el8fdp.s390x.rpm openvswitch3.1-debuginfo-3.1.0-17.el8fdp.s390x.rpm openvswitch3.1-debugsource-3.1.0-17.el8fdp.s390x.rpm openvswitch3.1-devel-3.1.0-17.el8fdp.s390x.rpm

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2023:1766-01
Product: Fast Datapath
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2023:1766
Issue date: 2023-04-13

Topic

An update for openvswitch3.1 is now available in Fast Datapath for Red HatEnterprise 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 red hat security fix networking openvswitch

Relevant Releases Architectures

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

Bugs Fixed

2137666 - CVE-2023-1668 openvswitch: ip proto 0 triggers incorrect handling

2177687 - [23.C RHEL-8] Fast Datapath Release

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