Missing Release of Resource after Effective Lifetime The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package openvswitch (opens in a new tab)
Threat Intelligence
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1804-OPENVSWITCH-617410
- published10 Sept 2020
- disclosed2 Oct 2017
Introduced: 2 Oct 2017
CVE-2017-14970 (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.
In lib/ofp-util.c in Open vSwitch (OvS) before 2.8.1, there are multiple memory leaks while parsing malformed OpenFlow group mod messages. NOTE: the vendor disputes the relevance of this report, stating "it can only be triggered by an OpenFlow controller, but OpenFlow controllers have much more direct and powerful ways to force Open vSwitch to allocate memory, such as by inserting flows into the flow table."