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HistoryJan 19, 2024 - 12:00 a.m.

CVE-2024-22563

2024-01-1900:00:00
ubuntu.com
ubuntu.com
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openvswitch memoryleak denialofservice cve-2024-22563 unix vulnerability

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

0.0005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

17.1%

openvswitch 2.17.8 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the function
xmalloc__ in openvswitch-2.17.8/lib/util.c.

Notes

Author Note
Priority reason: Denial of service due to memory leak.
sbeattie introduced in b6e840a (“pcap-file: Add nanosecond resolution pcap support.”) (v2.11.0)
mdeslaur This is fixed in 2.17.0, the CVE description is wrong
OSVersionArchitecturePackageVersionFilename
ubuntu20.04noarchopenvswitch< 2.13.8-0ubuntu1.1UNKNOWN

7.5 High

CVSS3

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction

NONE

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

NONE

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

0.0005 Low

EPSS

Percentile

17.1%