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Debian: CVE-2018-17206: openvswitch -- security update

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Debian: CVE-2018-17206: openvswitch -- security update

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/19/2018
Created
02/23/2021
Added
02/22/2021
Modified
02/22/2021

Description

An issue was discovered in Open vSwitch (OvS) 2.7.x through 2.7.6. The decode_bundle function inside lib/ofp-actions.c is affected by a buffer over-read issue during BUNDLE action decoding.

Solution(s)

  • debian-upgrade-openvswitch

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