Issued:
2022-05-27
Updated:
2022-05-27

RHSA-2022:4787 - Moderate: openvswitch2.15 security update

Synopsis

Moderate: openvswitch2.15 security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory Moderate

Topic

An update for openvswitch2.15 is now available in Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 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.

Description

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

Security Fix(es):

  • openvswitch2.15: DPDK: Out-of-bounds read/write in vhost_user_set_inflight_fd() may lead to crash (CVE-2021-3839)

  • openvswitch2.15: DPDK: Sending vhost-user-inflight type messages could lead to DoS (CVE-2022-0669)

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.

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 openvswitch2.15 are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath8x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath (for RHEL for ARM 64)8aarch64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE)8ppc64le
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath (for IBM z Systems)8s390x

Updated Packages

  • network-scripts-openvswitch2.15-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.s390x.rpm
  • python3-openvswitch2.15-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.aarch64.rpm
  • openvswitch2.15-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.x86_64.rpm
  • openvswitch2.15-debugsource-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.aarch64.rpm
  • openvswitch2.15-debugsource-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm
  • openvswitch2.15-debugsource-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.x86_64.rpm
  • openvswitch2.15-devel-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.aarch64.rpm
  • python3-openvswitch2.15-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.x86_64.rpm
  • openvswitch2.15-debuginfo-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.aarch64.rpm
  • network-scripts-openvswitch2.15-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.x86_64.rpm
  • openvswitch2.15-debuginfo-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm
  • python3-openvswitch2.15-debuginfo-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.x86_64.rpm
  • openvswitch2.15-ipsec-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.s390x.rpm
  • python3-openvswitch2.15-debuginfo-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.s390x.rpm
  • openvswitch2.15-debugsource-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.s390x.rpm
  • openvswitch2.15-debuginfo-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.x86_64.rpm
  • openvswitch2.15-ipsec-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm
  • openvswitch2.15-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm
  • openvswitch2.15-debuginfo-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.s390x.rpm
  • openvswitch2.15-devel-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.x86_64.rpm
  • openvswitch2.15-ipsec-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.x86_64.rpm
  • python3-openvswitch2.15-debuginfo-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm
  • openvswitch2.15-ipsec-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.aarch64.rpm
  • openvswitch2.15-devel-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm
  • openvswitch2.15-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.s390x.rpm
  • openvswitch2.15-devel-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.s390x.rpm
  • openvswitch2.15-test-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.noarch.rpm
  • python3-openvswitch2.15-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm
  • network-scripts-openvswitch2.15-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.ppc64le.rpm
  • python3-openvswitch2.15-debuginfo-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.aarch64.rpm
  • python3-openvswitch2.15-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.s390x.rpm
  • openvswitch2.15-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.aarch64.rpm
  • openvswitch2.15-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.src.rpm
  • network-scripts-openvswitch2.15-2.15.0-99.el8fdp.aarch64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

References

Additional information