CVE-2018-17206

MEDIUM

Open vSwitch <2.7.6 - Buffer Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (6)

Core 6
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0053
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3873-1/
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3500
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_redhat
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0081
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00032.html

Scores

CVSS v3 4.9
EPSS 0.0208
EPSS Percentile 84.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-125
Status published
Products (6)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
debian/debian_linux 9.0
openvswitch/openvswitch 2.7.0 - 2.7.6
redhat/openstack 10
redhat/openstack 13
Published Sep 19, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026