Important: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 13.0 (openvswitch2.11) security update

Topic

An update for openvswitch4.11 is now available for Red Hat OpenStack
Platform 13 (Queens).

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

Security Fix(es):

• DoS when a Vhost header crosses more than two descriptors and exhausts all mbufs (CVE-2022-2132)

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, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258

Affected Products

• Red Hat OpenStack 13 - Extended Life Cycle Support 13 x86_64
• Red Hat OpenStack 13 for IBM Power - Extended Life Cycle Support 13 ppc64le

Fixes

• BZ - 2099475 - CVE-2022-2132 dpdk: DoS when a Vhost header crosses more than two descriptors and exhausts all mbufs

CVEs

• CVE-2022-2132

References

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