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Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-0615-01

Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-0615-01
Posted Apr 12, 2016
Authored by Red Hat | Site access.redhat.com

Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-0615-01 - OpenShift Enterprise by Red Hat is the company's cloud computing Platform-as-a-Service 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 or, possibly, execute arbitrary code.

tags | advisory, remote, denial of service, overflow, arbitrary
systems | linux, redhat
advisories | CVE-2016-2074
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Red Hat Security Advisory 2016-0615-01

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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@redhat.com>. More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/

Copyright 2016 Red Hat, Inc.
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