Photon OS 1.0: Openvswitch PHSA-2017-0020

An update of the openvswitch package has been released. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from VMware Security Advisory PHSA-2017-0020. The text itself is copyright C VMware, Inc. include'compat.inc'; if description...

Ubuntu 16.04 LTS : Open vSwitch vulnerabilities (USN-3450-1)

The remote Ubuntu 16.04 LTS host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the USN-3450-1 advisory. Bhargava Shastry discovered that Open vSwitch incorrectly handled certain OFP messages. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Open...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-3450-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2017 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

USN-3450-1: Open vSwitch vulnerabilities

Bhargava Shastry discovered that Open vSwitch incorrectly handled certain OFP messages. A remote attacker could possibly use this issue to cause Open vSwitch to crash, resulting in a denial of service. CVE-2017-9214 It was discovered that Open vSwitch incorrectly handled certain OpenFlow role...

RHEL 7 : openvswitch (RHSA-2017:2418)

An update for openvswitch is now available for Fast Datapath for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

CVE-2017-9264

In lib/conntrack.c in the firewall implementation in Open vSwitch OvS 2.6.1, there is a buffer over-read while parsing malformed TCP, UDP, and IPv6 packets in the functions extractl3ipv6, extractl4tcp, and extractl4udp that can be triggered remotely...

CVE-2017-9264

CVE-2017-9264 affects Open vSwitch (OvS) firewall code. The vulnerability lies in the packet parsing path in lib/conntrack.c, specifically the functions extract_l3_ipv6, extract_l4_tcp, and extract_l4_udp, where a crafted TCP/UDP/IPv6 packet can trigger a buffer over-read. Demonstrated impact inc...