(RHSA-2020:0172) Moderate: openvswitch2.12 security and bug fix update

Open vSwitch provides standard network bridging functions and support for the OpenFlow protocol for remote per-flow control of traffic.

Security Fix(es):

• dpdk: possible memory leak leads to denial of service (CVE-2019-14818)

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.

Bug Fix(es):

• ovs-tcpundump doesn’t work well on special packet (BZ#1780553)

• ovs-tcpundump -V won’t exit (BZ#1780555)

• SyntaxError: Missing parentheses in call to ‘print’ (BZ#1780563)

• measure the time needed by ovn-controller to resync to a new SB db (BZ#1780719)