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https://access.redhat.com/security/data/csaf/v2/advisories/2024/rhsa-2024_1235.json

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Red Hat Security Advisory

Synopsis:           Important: openvswitch3.1 security update
Advisory ID:        RHSA-2024:1235-03
Product:            Fast Datapath
Advisory URL:       https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2024:1235
Issue date:         2024-03-07
Revision:           03
CVE Names:          CVE-2023-3966
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Summary: 

An update for openvswitch3.1 is now available for Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

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:

Open vSwitch provides standard network bridging functions and support for the OpenFlow protocol for remote per-flow control of traffic.

Security Fix(es):

* openvswsitch: ovs-vswitch fails to recover after malformed geneve metadata packet (CVE-2023-3966)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.


Solution:

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



CVEs:

CVE-2023-3966

References:

https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2178363
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/FD-3266
https://issues.redhat.com/browse/FDP-310