[SRU] openvswitch 2.9.8

Hello James, or anyone else affected,

Accepted openvswitch into bionic-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/openvswitch/2.9.8-0ubuntu0.18.04.1 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-bionic to verification-done-bionic. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-bionic. 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.

Hello James, or anyone else affected,

Accepted openvswitch into queens-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:queens-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-queens-needed to verification-queens-done. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-queens-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!

This bug was fixed in the package openvswitch - 2.9.8-0ubuntu0.18.04.2

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openvswitch (2.9.8-0ubuntu0.18.04.2) bionic-security; urgency=medium

  * SECURITY UPDATE: packet parsing vulnerability
    - debian/patches/CVE-2020-35498.patch: support extra padding length in
      lib/conntrack.c, lib/dp-packet.h, lib/flow.c, tests/classifier.at.
    - CVE-2020-35498

 -- Marc Deslauriers <email address hidden> Thu, 28 Jan 2021 14:49:10 -0500

The verification of the Stable Release Update for openvswitch has completed successfully and the package has now been released to -updates. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

This bug was fixed in the package openvswitch - 2.9.8-0ubuntu0.18.04.1~cloud0
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 openvswitch (2.9.8-0ubuntu0.18.04.1~cloud0) xenial-queens; urgency=medium
 .
   * New upstream release for the Ubuntu Cloud Archive.
 .
 openvswitch (2.9.8-0ubuntu0.18.04.1) bionic; urgency=medium
 .
   * d/openvswitch-switch{-dpdk}.prerm,postinst: Tidy case statements,
     only remove alternatives when package is being removed (LP: #1836713).
   * New upstream stable release (LP: #1912201):
     - debian/patches/CVE-2015-8011.patch,CVE-2020-27827.patch: Dropped,
       included in release.