Use After Free The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openvswitch  (opens in a new tab)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-UBUNTU1804-OPENVSWITCH-1320313
  • published21 Jul 2021
  • disclosed20 Jul 2021

Introduced: 20 Jul 2021

CVE-2021-36980  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-416  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:18.04.

NVD Description

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

Open vSwitch (aka openvswitch) 2.11.0 through 2.15.0 has a use-after-free in decode_NXAST_RAW_ENCAP (called from ofpact_decode and ofpacts_decode) during the decoding of a RAW_ENCAP action.