CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-2074
9.8 CRITICAL
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2016-07-03
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 9.8 CRITICAL — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
Buffer overflow in lib/flow.c in ovs-vswitchd in Open vSwitch 2.2.x and 2.3.x before 2.3.3 and 2.4.x before 2.4.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted MPLS packets, as demonstrated by a long string in an ovs-appctl command.
Affected configurations
• openvswitch openvswitch 2.2.0
• openvswitch openvswitch 2.3.0
• openvswitch openvswitch 2.3.1
• openvswitch openvswitch 2.3.2
• openvswitch openvswitch 2.4.0
• redhat openshift 3.1
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/announce/2016-March/000082.html Vendor Advisory
- http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/announce/2016-March/000083.html Patch
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0523.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0524.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0537.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3533 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85700 www.securityfocus.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0615 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1318553 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2074 security-tracker.debian.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-07 security.gentoo.org
- https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX232655 support.citrix.com
- http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/announce/2016-March/000082.html Vendor Advisory
- http://openvswitch.org/pipermail/announce/2016-March/000083.html Patch
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0523.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0524.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0537.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3533 www.debian.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85700 www.securityfocus.com
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0615 access.redhat.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1318553 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2074 security-tracker.debian.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-07 security.gentoo.org
- https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX232655 support.citrix.com