[SRU] opevnswitch 2.5.9

[James Page]

[Impact]
This release sports mostly bug-fixes and we would like to make sure all of our
supported customers have access to these improvements.
The update contains the following package updates:

   * openvswitch 2.5.9

[Test Case]

The following SRU process was followed:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/OpenStack/StableReleaseUpdates

In order to avoid regression of existing consumers, the OpenStack team will
run their continuous integration test against the packages that are in
-proposed. A successful run of all available tests will be required before the
proposed packages can be let into -updates.

The OpenStack team will be in charge of attaching the output summary of the
executed tests. The OpenStack team members will not mark ‘verification-done’ until
this has happened.

[Regression Potential]
In order to mitigate the regression potential, the results of the
aforementioned tests are attached to this bug.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Hello James, or anyone else affected,

Accepted openvswitch into xenial-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openvswitch/2.5.9-0ubuntu0.16.04.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-xenial to verification-done-xenial. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-xenial. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Ubuntu SRU Bot (ubuntu-sru-bot)]

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted openvswitch (2.5.9-0ubuntu0.16.04.1) for xenial have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

neutron/2:8.4.0-0ubuntu7.5 (ppc64el)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/xenial/update_excuses.html#openvswitch

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

[Corey Bryant (corey.bryant)]

Hello James, or anyone else affected,

Accepted openvswitch into mitaka-proposed. The package will build now and be available in the Ubuntu Cloud Archive in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. To enable the -proposed repository:

  sudo add-apt-repository cloud-archive:mitaka-proposed
  sudo apt-get update

Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, and change the tag from verification-mitaka-needed to verification-mitaka-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-mitaka-failed. In either case, details of your testing will help us make a better decision.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance!

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package openvswitch - 2.5.9-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

---------------
openvswitch (2.5.9-0ubuntu0.16.04.2) xenial-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: buffer overflow decoding malformed packets in lldp
    - debian/patches/CVE-2015-8011.patch: check lengths in lib/lldp/lldp.c.
    - CVE-2015-8011
  * SECURITY UPDATE: Externally triggered memory leak in lldp
    - debian/patches/CVE-2020-27827.patch: properly free memory in
      lib/lldp/lldp.c.
    - CVE-2020-27827

 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Fri, 08 Jan 2021 07:30:54 -0500