CVE-2018-17206 (GCVE-0-2018-17206)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-09-19 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 10:47
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
4.9 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0053 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3873-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3500 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/9237a63… x_refsource_MISC
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0081 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
Date Public
2018-09-19 00:00
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