Out-of-bounds Read The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openvswitch  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1404-OPENVSWITCH-615226
  • published29 May 2017
  • disclosed29 May 2017

Introduced: 29 May 2017

CVE-2017-9265  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-125  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:14.04.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream openvswitch package and not the openvswitch package as distributed by Ubuntu.

In Open vSwitch (OvS) v2.7.0, there is a buffer over-read while parsing the group mod OpenFlow message sent from the controller in lib/ofp-util.c in the function ofputil_pull_ofp15_group_mod.