RHSA-2021:2205: Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (openvswitch) security update

An update for openvswitch is now available for Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton). Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. 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.Open vSwitch provides standard network bridging functions and support for the OpenFlow protocol for remote per-flow control of traffic. Security Fix(es):

• buffer overflow in the lldp_decode function in daemon/protocols/lldp.c (CVE-2015-8011) For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page listed in the References section. Related CVEs:
• CVE-2015-8011: lldpd: buffer overflow in the lldp_decode function in daemon/protocols/lldp.c