An openvswitch2.12 security and bug fix update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: openvswitch2.12 security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:0168-01
Product: Fast Datapath
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0168
Issue date: 2020-01-21
CVE Names: CVE-2019-14818
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1. Summary:
An update for openvswitch2.12 is now available for Fast Datapath for RHEL
7.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from
the CVE link(s) in the References section.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Channel to provide early releases to layered products - noarch, ppc64le, s390x, x86_64
3. Description:
Open vSwitch provides standard network bridging functions and support for
the OpenFlow protocol for remote per-flow control of traffic.
Security Fix(es):
* dpdk: possible memory leak leads to denial of service (CVE-2019-14818)
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):
* measure the time needed by ovn-controller to resync to a new SB db
(BZ#1720653)
4. 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
5. Bugs fixed ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1720653 - measure the time needed by ovn-controller to resync to a new SB db
1737327 - CVE-2019-14818 dpdk: possible memory leak leads to denial of service
6. Package List:
Channel to provide early releases to layered products:
Source:
openvswitch2.12-2.12.0-12.el7fdp.src.rpm
noarch:
openvswitch2.12-test-2.12.0-12.el7fdp.noarch.rpm
ppc64le:
openvswitch2.12-2.12.0-12.el7fdp.ppc64le.rpm
openvswitch2.12-debuginfo-2.12.0-12.el7fdp.ppc64le.rpm
openvswitch2.12-devel-2.12.0-12.el7fdp.ppc64le.rpm
python-openvswitch2.12-2.12.0-12.el7fdp.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
openvswitch2.12-2.12.0-12.el7fdp.s390x.rpm
openvswitch2.12-debuginfo-2.12.0-12.el7fdp.s390x.rpm
openvswitch2.12-devel-2.12.0-12.el7fdp.s390x.rpm
python-openvswitch2.12-2.12.0-12.el7fdp.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
openvswitch2.12-2.12.0-12.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm
openvswitch2.12-debuginfo-2.12.0-12.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm
openvswitch2.12-devel-2.12.0-12.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm
python-openvswitch2.12-2.12.0-12.el7fdp.x86_64.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/
7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2019-14818
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is . More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
Copyright 2020 Red Hat, Inc.
