vulnerability

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
May 23, 2017
Added
Oct 11, 2017
Modified
Mar 27, 2026

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

ubuntu-upgrade-openvswitch-common
Title
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