RHBA-2024:8553 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

An update for ovn23.09 is now available for Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.

Description

OVN, the Open Virtual Network, is a system to support virtual network abstraction. OVN complements the existing capabilities of OVS to add native support for virtual network abstractions, such as virtual L2 and L3 overlays and security groups.

Bug Fix(es) and Enhancement(s):

• unSNAT ICMP needs frag not working with OVN-Kubernetes (JIRA:FDP-159)
• regression caused by Support for PMTUD on tunnel ports (JIRA:FDP-216)
• [OVN] setting tag_request to 0 is causing wrong calculation for check_pkt_larger (JIRA:FDP-38)
• [OVN] northd trying to delete a key that doesn't exist in the map log spam (JIRA:FDP-54)
• ovn-controller fails to create more than 64K OpenFlow groups/meters (JIRA:FDP-70)
• OVN 23.09 24.G RHEL 9 Release (JIRA:FDP-806)

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 Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath 9 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath (for RHEL Server for IBM Power LE) 9 ppc64le
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath (for IBM z Systems) 9 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Fast Datapath (for RHEL for ARM 64) 9 aarch64

Fixes

• FDP-159 - unSNAT ICMP needs frag not working with OVN-Kubernetes
• FDP-216 - regression caused by Support for PMTUD on tunnel ports
• FDP-38 - [OVN] setting tag_request to 0 is causing wrong calculation for check_pkt_larger
• FDP-54 - [OVN] northd trying to delete a key that doesn't exist in the map log spam
• FDP-70 - ovn-controller fails to create more than 64K OpenFlow groups/meters
• FDP-806 - OVN 23.09 24.G RHEL 9 Release

CVEs

(none)

References

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