[RHSA-2016:0615-01] Important: openvswitch security update

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                   Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:          Important: openvswitch security update
Advisory ID:       RHSA-2016:0615-01
Product:           Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise
Advisory URL:      https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0615
Issue date:        2016-04-11
CVE Names:         CVE-2016-2074 
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1. Summary:

Updated openvswitch packages that fix one security issue are now available 
for Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having Important security
impact. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which
gives a detailed severity rating, is available from the CVE link in the
References section.

2. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1 - noarch, x86_64

3. Description:

OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat is the company's cloud computing
Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) solution designed for on-premise or private
cloud deployments.

A buffer overflow flaw was discovered in the OVS processing of MPLS labels.
A remote attacker able to deliver a frame containing a malicious MPLS label
that would be processed by OVS could trigger the flaw and use the resulting
memory corruption to cause a denial of service (DoS) or, possibly, execute 
arbitrary code. (CVE-2016-2074)

Red Hat would like to thank the Open vSwitch Project for reporting these 
issues. Upstream acknowledges Kashyap Thimmaraju and Bhargava Shastry as 
the original reporters of CVE-2016-2074.

This update includes the following images:

openshift3/openvswitch:v3.1.1.6-9
aep3_beta/openvswitch:v3.1.1.6-9
openshift3/node:v3.1.1.6-16
aep3_beta/node:v3.1.1.6-16

All openvswitch users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which
contains a backported patch to correct this issue.

4. Solution:

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata
relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

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

5. Bugs fixed (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):

1318553 - CVE-2016-2074 openvswitch: MPLS buffer overflow vulnerability

6. Package List:

Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 3.1:

Source:
openvswitch-2.4.0-2.el7_2.src.rpm

noarch:
openvswitch-test-2.4.0-2.el7_2.noarch.rpm
python-openvswitch-2.4.0-2.el7_2.noarch.rpm

x86_64:
openvswitch-2.4.0-2.el7_2.x86_64.rpm
openvswitch-debuginfo-2.4.0-2.el7_2.x86_64.rpm
openvswitch-devel-2.4.0-2.el7_2.x86_64.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-2016-2074
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important

8. Contact:

The Red Hat security contact is <secalert at redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2016 Red Hat, Inc.
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