UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9265

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9265

    Published: 29 May 2017Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-9265
    Aliases:
    USN-3450-1

    Summary:

    Details: 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`.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9265, https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-May/332965.html, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3450-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9265

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: openvswitch

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.5.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

    Affected versions

    2.4.0-0ubuntu4
    2.4.0-0ubuntu5

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High