Moderate: openvswitch security and bug fix update

Synopsis

Moderate: openvswitch security and bug fix update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for openvswitch is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 (Pike).

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):

• dpdk: Information exposure in unchecked guest physical to host virtual address translations (CVE-2018-1059)
  

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

This issue was discovered by Maxime Coquelin (Red Hat).

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

• Red Hat OpenStack 12 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenStack for IBM Power 12 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 1544298 - CVE-2018-1059 dpdk: Information exposure in unchecked guest physical to host virtual address translations
• BZ - 1547518 - Need an openvswitch-test package that can be installed along with python-openvswitch from OSP repo [openstack-12]
• BZ - 1561969 - Backport from master OVS for "LACP: check active partner sys id"
• BZ - 1583749 - openvswitch-2.9.0-19.el7fdp installs /var/log/openvswitch with permissions 0755 [openstack-12]

CVEs

• CVE-2018-1059

References

• https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate