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Ubuntu: USN-3450-1 (CVE-2017-9264): Open vSwitch vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3450-1 (CVE-2017-9264): Open vSwitch vulnerabilities

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/29/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/11/2017
Modified
03/02/2020

Description

In lib/conntrack.c in the firewall implementation in Open vSwitch (OvS) 2.6.1, there is a buffer over-read while parsing malformed TCP, UDP, and IPv6 packets in the functions `extract_l3_ipv6`, `extract_l4_tcp`, and `extract_l4_udp` that can be triggered remotely.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-openvswitch-common

References

  • USN-3450-1
  • CVE-2017-9264

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