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Ubuntu: USN-3450-1 (CVE-2017-9214): Open vSwitch vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3450-1 (CVE-2017-9214): Open vSwitch vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/23/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/11/2017
Modified
04/25/2018

Description

In Open vSwitch (OvS) 2.7.0, while parsing an OFPT_QUEUE_GET_CONFIG_REPLY type OFP 1.0 message, there is a buffer over-read that is caused by an unsigned integer underflow in the function `ofputil_pull_queue_get_config_reply10` in `lib/ofp-util.c`.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-openvswitch-common

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