An openvswitch2.11 security update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

RHSA-2021:3942-01: Moderate: openvswitch2.11 security update

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis: Moderate: openvswitch2.11 security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:3942-01
Product: Red Hat Virtualization
Advisory URL:   https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3942
Issue date: 2021-10-20
CVE Names: CVE-2021-36980
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1. Summary:

An update for openvswitch2.11 is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4
for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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:

Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts - ppc64le, 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):

* openvswitch2.11: openvswitch: use-after-free in decode_NXAST_RAW_ENCAP
during the decoding of a RAW_ENCAP action (CVE-2021-36980)

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.

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/2974891

5. Bugs fixed (  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1984473 - CVE-2021-36980 openvswitch: use-after-free in decode_NXAST_RAW_ENCAP during the decoding of a RAW_ENCAP action

6. Package List:

Red Hat Virtualization 4 Management Agent for RHEL 7 Hosts:

Source:
openvswitch2.11-2.11.3-89.el7fdp.src.rpm

ppc64le:
openvswitch2.11-2.11.3-89.el7fdp.ppc64le.rpm
openvswitch2.11-debuginfo-2.11.3-89.el7fdp.ppc64le.rpm
openvswitch2.11-devel-2.11.3-89.el7fdp.ppc64le.rpm
python-openvswitch2.11-2.11.3-89.el7fdp.ppc64le.rpm

x86_64:
openvswitch2.11-2.11.3-89.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm
openvswitch2.11-debuginfo-2.11.3-89.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm
openvswitch2.11-devel-2.11.3-89.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm
python-openvswitch2.11-2.11.3-89.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-2021-36980
  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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