Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-9214

Title: Openvswitch Memory Corruption

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-9214.

CWE Category CWE-191

Published Date May 23, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.8 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.89%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-9214: In Open vSwitch (OvS) 2.7.0, while parsing an OFPT_QUEUE_GET_CONFIG_REPLY type OFP 1.0 message, there is a buffer over-read that is caused by an unsigned integer underflow in the function `ofputil_pull_queue_get_config_reply10` in `lib/ofp-util.c`.

Impacted Vendors

Reference Links

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2418 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2553 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2648 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2665 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2692 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2698 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2727 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00032.html https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-May/332711.html https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2418 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2553 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2648 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2665 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2692 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2698 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2727 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00032.html https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-May/332711.html

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity CRITICAL

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns