Synopsis

Moderate: openvswitch security update

Type/Severity

Security Advisory: Moderate

Topic

An update for openvswitch is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11.0 (Ocata).

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):

• An unsigned integer wrap around that led to a buffer over-read was found when parsing OFPT_QUEUE_GET_CONFIG_REPLY messages in Open vSwitch (OvS). An attacker could use this issue to cause a remote denial of service attack. (CVE-2017-9214)
  
• While parsing an OpenFlow role status message Open vSwitch (OvS), a call to the abort() function for undefined role status reasons in the function 'ofp_print_role_status_message' in 'lib/ofp-print.c' could be misused for a remote denial of service attack by a malicious switch. (CVE-2017-9263)
  
• A buffer over-read was found in the Open vSwitch (OvS) firewall implementation. This flaw can be triggered by parsing a specially crafted TCP, UDP, or IPv6 packet. A remote attack could use this flaw to cause a Denial of Service (DoS). (CVE-2017-9264)
  
• A buffer over-read issue was found in Open vSwitch (OvS) which emerged while parsing the GroupMod OpenFlow messages sent from the controller. The issue could enable an attacker to cause a denial of service type of attack. (CVE-2017-9265)

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 11 x86_64

Fixes

• BZ - 1456795 - CVE-2017-9214 openvswitch: Integer underflow in the ofputil_pull_queue_get_config_reply10 function
• BZ - 1457327 - CVE-2017-9263 openvswitch: Invalid processing of a malicious OpenFlow role status message
• BZ - 1457329 - CVE-2017-9264 openvswitch: Buffer over-read while parsing malformed TCP, UDP and IPv6 packets
• BZ - 1457335 - CVE-2017-9265 openvswitch: Buffer over-read while parsing the group mod OpenFlow message

CVEs

• CVE-2017-9214
• CVE-2017-9263
• CVE-2017-9264
• CVE-2017-9265

References

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

Red Hat OpenStack 11

SRPM
openvswitch-2.6.1-13.git20161206.el7ost.src.rpm	SHA-256: 917cae41a326e27356a45e45bd863dca22592cccb3f706e232155a0c32992e18
x86_64
openvswitch-2.6.1-13.git20161206.el7ost.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 7143a817f39d1d808e53c9d80e41b2c67b85ad89a15f5bc01169553d1fa1fc8a
openvswitch-debuginfo-2.6.1-13.git20161206.el7ost.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: eed8aa620ea51c8709bd8d849cf77c69de5a45e6bc070f96c874dbe181e58193
openvswitch-ovn-central-2.6.1-13.git20161206.el7ost.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 81961f1b9bbb1309ae0ec14ebe2369bfac17007e3c38af9908ffb2cb6985457e
openvswitch-ovn-common-2.6.1-13.git20161206.el7ost.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: c33a4b2da14f494c4635a3e21cd5c5888369fb46ea68fb4edb33fc81c4de4a91
openvswitch-ovn-docker-2.6.1-13.git20161206.el7ost.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: ff2cbac80453eb236170a08ff0ee0730e445a1bada9647b50f806705d9105252
openvswitch-ovn-host-2.6.1-13.git20161206.el7ost.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 3506d60fe9c1b39e96cfc5093355deba83808710ee23dccfdfaaccc0cd31979c
openvswitch-ovn-vtep-2.6.1-13.git20161206.el7ost.x86_64.rpm	SHA-256: 8a4df1d3c9e182ab98f0adcc962d21aaeff6389069e2eb170d298e97df6a31e6
python-openvswitch-2.6.1-13.git20161206.el7ost.noarch.rpm	SHA-256: cec100594688ed132351b1709d6eb387555310d59cd0b6fbb46d1e3b1500a583