Bug 1984473 (CVE-2021-36980)

Summary: CVE-2021-36980 openvswitch: use-after-free in decode_NXAST_RAW_ENCAP during the decoding of a RAW_ENCAP action
Product: [Other] Security Response Reporter: Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz <gsuckevi>
Component: vulnerabilityAssignee: Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact:
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecifiedCC: aconole, apevec, atragler, bmontgom, chrisw, ctrautma, dbecker, dblechte, eedri, eparis, fleitner, james.hogarth, jburrell, jhsiao, jjoyce, jokerman, jschluet, lhh, linville, lpeer, mburns, mgoldboi, michal.skrivanek, mkolesni, nhorman, nstielau, ovs-qe, ovs-team, ralongi, rhos-maint, rkhan, sbonazzo, sclewis, scohen, sherold, slinaber, sponnaga, tgraf, tredaelli, yturgema
Target Milestone: ---Keywords: Security
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Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: openvsiwtch 2.13.4, openvswitch 2.15.1 Doc Type: If docs needed, set a value
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Open vSwitch (aka openvswitch) has a use-after-free in decode_NXAST_RAW_ENCAP (called from ofpact_decode and ofpacts_decode) during the decoding of a RAW_ENCAP action.
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Last Closed: 2021-10-18 20:08:24 UTC Type: ---
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oVirt Team: --- RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On: 1984475, 1984476, 1984477, 1984478, 1984480, 1987071, 1987072, 1987073, 1987075, 1987076, 1987077, 1987078, 1987079, 1987080, 1988258, 1989775, 1989776    
Bug Blocks: 1984479    

Comment 1 Guilherme de Almeida Suckevicz 2021-07-21 14:18:23 UTC
Created dpdk tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1984477]


Created lldpd tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: epel-7 [bug 1984480]
Affects: fedora-all [bug 1984478]


Created openvswitch tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1984475]


Created rdo-openvswitch tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: openstack-rdo [bug 1984476]

Comment 3 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2021-07-29 05:03:19 UTC
Note:

This issue was introduced by the following commit https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/418a7a84245f5fbe589dd1267463fc9ba27a1dd6 , therefore only versions from 2.11.0 to 2.15.0 are affected by this flaw.

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2021-10-18 16:51:53 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 4.9

Via RHSA-2021:3758 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3758

Comment 9 Product Security DevOps Team 2021-10-18 20:08:24 UTC
This bug is now closed. Further updates for individual products will be reflected on the CVE page(s):

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2021-36980

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2021-10-20 09:52:28 UTC
This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Virtualization 4 for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7

Via RHSA-2021:3942 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:3942