CVE-2017-9265 in vSwitch

Summary

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`.

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• Reservation: 05/28/2017
• Disclosure: 05/29/2017
• Moderation: VulDB entry created
• Entries: 1: VDB-101837
• CPE: ready
• CWE: CWE-119 (Confirmed)
• CVSS: 8.5
• EPSS: 0.01417
• Activities: Very Low

Sources

• MITRE: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9265
• NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9265
• CVE Details: https://www.cvedetails.com/cve/CVE-2017-9265/