Out-of-bounds Read Affecting openvswitch package, versions <2.10.0+2018.08.28+git.8ca7c82b7d+ds1-1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.48% (76th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIANUNSTABLE-OPENVSWITCH-278687
  • published25 Sept 2018
  • disclosed19 Sept 2018

Introduced: 19 Sep 2018

CVE-2018-17206  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:unstable openvswitch to version 2.10.0+2018.08.28+git.8ca7c82b7d+ds1-1 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openvswitch package and not the openvswitch package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:unstable relevant fixed versions and status.

An issue was discovered in Open vSwitch (OvS) 2.7.x through 2.7.6. The decode_bundle function inside lib/ofp-actions.c is affected by a buffer over-read issue during BUNDLE action decoding.

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