An openvswitch2.11 security and bug fix update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: openvswitch2.11 security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:0171-01
Product: Fast Datapath
Advisory URL:   https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:0171
Issue date: 2020-01-22
CVE Names: CVE-2019-14818
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1. Summary:

An update for openvswitch2.11 is now available for Fast Datapath for RHEL
8.

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):

* SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print' (BZ#1751161)

* [ovsdb-server] Allow replicating from older schema servers (BZ#1760763)

* ovs-tcpundump doesn't work well on special packet (BZ#1764125)

* ovs-tcpundump -V won't exit (BZ#1764127)

* measure the time needed by ovn-controller to resync to a new SB db
(BZ#1780729)

* [ovs2.11] SSL connections drops are constantly logged in
ovsdb-server-nb.log (BZ#1780747)

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/):

1737327 - CVE-2019-14818 dpdk: possible memory leak leads to denial of service
1751161 - SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to 'print'
1760763 - [ovsdb-server] Allow replicating from older schema servers
1764125 - ovs-tcpundump doesn't work well on special packet
1764127 - ovs-tcpundump -V won't exit
1780729 - measure the time needed by ovn-controller to resync to a new SB db
1780747 - [ovs2.11] SSL connections drops are constantly logged in ovsdb-server-nb.log

6. Package List:

Channel to provide early releases to layered products:

Source:
openvswitch2.11-2.11.0-35.el8fdp.src.rpm

noarch:
openvswitch2.11-test-2.11.0-35.el8fdp.noarch.rpm

ppc64le:
network-scripts-openvswitch2.11-2.11.0-35.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm
openvswitch2.11-2.11.0-35.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm
openvswitch2.11-debuginfo-2.11.0-35.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm
openvswitch2.11-debugsource-2.11.0-35.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm
openvswitch2.11-devel-2.11.0-35.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm
python3-openvswitch2.11-2.11.0-35.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm
python3-openvswitch2.11-debuginfo-2.11.0-35.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm

s390x:
network-scripts-openvswitch2.11-2.11.0-35.el8fdp.s390x.rpm
openvswitch2.11-2.11.0-35.el8fdp.s390x.rpm
openvswitch2.11-debuginfo-2.11.0-35.el8fdp.s390x.rpm
openvswitch2.11-debugsource-2.11.0-35.el8fdp.s390x.rpm
openvswitch2.11-devel-2.11.0-35.el8fdp.s390x.rpm
python3-openvswitch2.11-2.11.0-35.el8fdp.s390x.rpm
python3-openvswitch2.11-debuginfo-2.11.0-35.el8fdp.s390x.rpm

x86_64:
network-scripts-openvswitch2.11-2.11.0-35.el8fdp.x86_64.rpm
openvswitch2.11-2.11.0-35.el8fdp.x86_64.rpm
openvswitch2.11-debuginfo-2.11.0-35.el8fdp.x86_64.rpm
openvswitch2.11-debugsource-2.11.0-35.el8fdp.x86_64.rpm
openvswitch2.11-devel-2.11.0-35.el8fdp.x86_64.rpm
python3-openvswitch2.11-2.11.0-35.el8fdp.x86_64.rpm
python3-openvswitch2.11-debuginfo-2.11.0-35.el8fdp.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/

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