RHSA-2023:0688 — Security Advisory

Red Hat Security Advisory: openvswitch2.17 security, bug fix and enhancement update

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

RHEL 8

Products

Official CSAF product identity

Published · February 9, 2023

Updated · June 28, 2026

Topic

An update for openvswitch2.17 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):

  • openvswitch: Out-of-Bounds Read in Organization Specific TLV (CVE-2022-4337)
  • openvswitch: Integer Underflow in Organization Specific TLV (CVE-2022-4338)

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

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