An openvswitch security, bug fix and enhancement update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.
RHSA-2020:2298-01: Moderate: openvswitch security, bug fix and enhancement update
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: openvswitch security, bug fix and enhancement update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2020:2298-01
Product: Fast Datapath
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2020:2298
Issue date: 2020-05-26
CVE Names: CVE-2020-10722 CVE-2020-10723
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1. Summary:
An update for openvswitch is now available in Fast Datapath 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:
Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 - 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: librte_vhost Interger overflow in vhost_user_set_log_base()
(CVE-2020-10722)
* dpdk: librte_vhost Integer truncation in
vhost_user_check_and_alloc_queue_pair() (CVE-2020-10723)
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):
* OVS causing high pings and latency inside guest VM when an active DPDK
port fails (BZ#1822198)
* SEGV after recirculation in batch processing in vswitchd 2.9.0
(BZ#1826886)
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/):
1822198 - OVS causing high pings and latency inside guest VM when an active DPDK port fails
1826886 - SEGV after recirculation in batch processing in vswitchd 2.9.0
1828867 - CVE-2020-10722 dpdk: librte_vhost Interger overflow in vhost_user_set_log_base()
1828874 - CVE-2020-10723 dpdk: librte_vhost Integer truncation in vhost_user_check_and_alloc_queue_pair()
6. Package List:
Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7:
Source:
openvswitch-2.9.0-130.el7fdp.src.rpm
noarch:
openvswitch-test-2.9.0-130.el7fdp.noarch.rpm
ppc64le:
openvswitch-2.9.0-130.el7fdp.ppc64le.rpm
openvswitch-debuginfo-2.9.0-130.el7fdp.ppc64le.rpm
openvswitch-devel-2.9.0-130.el7fdp.ppc64le.rpm
openvswitch-ovn-central-2.9.0-130.el7fdp.ppc64le.rpm
openvswitch-ovn-common-2.9.0-130.el7fdp.ppc64le.rpm
openvswitch-ovn-host-2.9.0-130.el7fdp.ppc64le.rpm
openvswitch-ovn-vtep-2.9.0-130.el7fdp.ppc64le.rpm
python-openvswitch-2.9.0-130.el7fdp.ppc64le.rpm
s390x:
openvswitch-2.9.0-130.el7fdp.s390x.rpm
openvswitch-debuginfo-2.9.0-130.el7fdp.s390x.rpm
openvswitch-devel-2.9.0-130.el7fdp.s390x.rpm
openvswitch-ovn-central-2.9.0-130.el7fdp.s390x.rpm
openvswitch-ovn-common-2.9.0-130.el7fdp.s390x.rpm
openvswitch-ovn-host-2.9.0-130.el7fdp.s390x.rpm
openvswitch-ovn-vtep-2.9.0-130.el7fdp.s390x.rpm
python-openvswitch-2.9.0-130.el7fdp.s390x.rpm
x86_64:
openvswitch-2.9.0-130.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm
openvswitch-debuginfo-2.9.0-130.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm
openvswitch-devel-2.9.0-130.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm
openvswitch-ovn-central-2.9.0-130.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm
openvswitch-ovn-common-2.9.0-130.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm
openvswitch-ovn-host-2.9.0-130.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm
openvswitch-ovn-vtep-2.9.0-130.el7fdp.x86_64.rpm
python-openvswitch-2.9.0-130.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-2020-10722
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2020-10723
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.
