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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Moderate: openvswitch security and bug fix update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2018:2524-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2524
Issue date: 2018-08-20
CVE Names: CVE-2018-1059
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1. Summary:
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.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
OpenStack 12.0 Tools for RHEL 7 - noarch
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0 - noarch, ppc64le, 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: 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).
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/):
1544298 - CVE-2018-1059 dpdk: Information exposure in unchecked guest physical to host virtual address translations
1547518 - Need an openvswitch-test package that can be installed along with python-openvswitch from OSP repo [openstack-12]
1561969 - Backport from master OVS for "LACP: check active partner sys id"
1583749 - openvswitch-2.9.0-19.el7fdp installs /var/log/openvswitch with permissions 0755 [openstack-12]
6. Package List:
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 12.0:
Source:
openvswitch-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.src.rpm
noarch:
python-openvswitch-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.noarch.rpm
ppc64le:
openvswitch-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.ppc64le.rpm
openvswitch-debuginfo-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.ppc64le.rpm
openvswitch-ovn-central-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.ppc64le.rpm
openvswitch-ovn-common-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.ppc64le.rpm
openvswitch-ovn-host-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.ppc64le.rpm
openvswitch-ovn-vtep-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64:
openvswitch-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.x86_64.rpm
openvswitch-debuginfo-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.x86_64.rpm
openvswitch-ovn-central-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.x86_64.rpm
openvswitch-ovn-common-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.x86_64.rpm
openvswitch-ovn-host-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.x86_64.rpm
openvswitch-ovn-vtep-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.x86_64.rpm
OpenStack 12.0 Tools for RHEL 7:
noarch:
openvswitch-test-2.9.0-19.el7fdp.1.noarch.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-2018-1059
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#moderate
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is <secalert@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
Copyright 2018 Red Hat, Inc.
