RHSA-2022:6506 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: openvswitch2.16 security update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · September 14, 2022

Updated · August 7, 2026

Topic

An update for openvswitch2.13 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 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):

  • dpdk: error recovery in mlx5 driver not handled properly, allowing for denial of service (CVE-2022-28199)

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.

Related CVEs

RHSA-2022:6506 — Red Hat Security Advisory: openvswitch2.16 security update | PulseLinux