rhsa-2021_3942
Vulnerability from csaf_redhat
Published
2021-10-20 09:54
Modified
2024-09-13 17:28
Summary
Red Hat Security Advisory: openvswitch2.11 security update

Notes

Topic
An update for openvswitch2.11 is now available for Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. 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.
Details
Open vSwitch provides standard network bridging functions and support for the OpenFlow protocol for remote per-flow control of traffic. Security Fix(es): * openvswitch2.11: openvswitch: use-after-free in decode_NXAST_RAW_ENCAP during the decoding of a RAW_ENCAP action (CVE-2021-36980) 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.
Terms of Use
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      ],
      "title": "openvswitch: use-after-free in decode_NXAST_RAW_ENCAP during the decoding of a RAW_ENCAP action"
    }
  ]
}


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