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CentOS Linux: CVE-2017-9265: Moderate: openvswitch security, bug fix, and enhancement update (CESA-2017:2418)

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CentOS Linux: CVE-2017-9265: Moderate: openvswitch security, bug fix, and enhancement update (CESA-2017:2418)

Severity
8
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)
Published
05/29/2017
Created
08/29/2019
Added
08/28/2019
Modified
05/25/2023

Description

In Open vSwitch (OvS) v2.7.0, there is a buffer over-read while parsing the group mod OpenFlow message sent from the controller in `lib/ofp-util.c` in the function `ofputil_pull_ofp15_group_mod`.

Solution(s)

  • centos-upgrade-openvswitch
  • centos-upgrade-openvswitch-debuginfo
  • centos-upgrade-openvswitch-devel
  • centos-upgrade-openvswitch-ovn-central
  • centos-upgrade-openvswitch-ovn-common
  • centos-upgrade-openvswitch-ovn-docker
  • centos-upgrade-openvswitch-ovn-host
  • centos-upgrade-openvswitch-ovn-vtep
  • centos-upgrade-openvswitch-test
  • centos-upgrade-python-openvswitch

References

  • CVE-2017-9265
  • RHSA-2017:2418
  • RHSA-2017:2553
  • RHSA-2017:2648
  • RHSA-2017:2665
  • RHSA-2017:2692
  • RHSA-2017:2698
  • RHSA-2017:2727
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