Buffer Over-read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openvswitch2.15  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL8-OPENVSWITCH215-3035581
  • published29 Sept 2022
  • disclosed28 Sept 2022

Introduced: 28 Sep 2022

CVE-2022-32166  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-126  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Red Hat security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for RHEL:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openvswitch2.15 package and not the openvswitch2.15 package as distributed by RHEL.

In ovs versions v0.90.0 through v2.5.0 are vulnerable to heap buffer over-read in flow.c. An unsafe comparison of “minimasks” function could lead access to an unmapped region of memory. This vulnerability is capable of crashing the software, memory modification, and possible remote execution.