CVE-2017-9214

Publication date 23 May 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

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`.

Status

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Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
openvswitch	17.04 zesty	Fixed 2.6.1-0ubuntu5.1
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Fixed 2.5.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
	14.04 LTS trusty	Not in release

Patch details

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Package	Patch details
openvswitch	Upstream: fafbfa6

Severity score breakdown

Parameter	Value
Base score	9.8 · Critical
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality	High
Integrity impact	High
Availability impact	High
Vector	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

USN-3450-1
Open vSwitch vulnerabilities
11 October 2017