vulnerability
Alpine Linux: CVE-2016-2074: openvswitch MPLS buffer overflow vulnerabilities
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P) | Jul 3, 2016 | Sep 20, 2017 | Jan 8, 2018 |
Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
Jul 3, 2016
Added
Sep 20, 2017
Modified
Jan 8, 2018
Description
Buffer overflow in lib/flow.c in ovs-vswitchd in Open vSwitch 2.2.x and 2.3.x before 2.3.3 and 2.4.x before 2.4.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted MPLS packets, as demonstrated by a long string in an ovs-appctl command.
Solution
alpine-linux-upgrade-openvswitch
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