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CentOS Linux: CVE-2018-17206: Moderate: openvswitch security, bug fix, and enhancement update (CESA-2018:3500)

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CentOS Linux: CVE-2018-17206: Moderate: openvswitch security, bug fix, and enhancement update (CESA-2018:3500)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
09/19/2018
Created
08/29/2019
Added
08/28/2019
Modified
05/25/2023

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)

  • 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-host
  • centos-upgrade-openvswitch-ovn-vtep
  • centos-upgrade-openvswitch-test
  • centos-upgrade-python-openvswitch

References

  • CVE-2018-17206
  • RHSA-2018:3500
  • RHSA-2019:0053
  • RHSA-2019:0081

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