Issued:
2021-06-02
Updated:
2021-06-02

RHSA-2021:2205 - Important: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 openvswitch - security update

Synopsis

Important: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (openvswitch) security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Important

Topic

An update for openvswitch is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton).

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.

Description

Open vSwitch provides standard network bridging functions and support for the OpenFlow protocol for remote per-flow control of traffic.

Security Fix(es):

  • buffer overflow in the lldp_decode function in daemon/protocols/lldp.c (CVE-2015-8011)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page listed in the References section.

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

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat OpenStack10x86_64

Updated Packages

  • openvswitch-2.9.9-1.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm
  • python-openvswitch-2.9.9-1.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm
  • openvswitch-devel-2.9.9-1.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm
  • openvswitch-debuginfo-2.9.9-1.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm
  • openvswitch-2.9.9-1.el7fdp.src.rpm
  • openvswitch-test-2.9.9-1.el7fdp.noarch.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information