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Ubuntu: USN-3873-1 (CVE-2018-17206): Open vSwitch vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3873-1 (CVE-2018-17206): Open vSwitch vulnerabilities

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/19/2018
Created
03/19/2019
Added
02/05/2019
Modified
10/20/2020

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)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-openvswitch-common

References

  • USN-3873-1
  • RHSA-2018:3500
  • RHSA-2019:0053
  • RHSA-2019:0081
  • CVE-2018-17206

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