Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-9264

Title: Openvswitch Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-9264.

CWE Category CWE-125

Published Date May 29, 2017

Modified Date Jun 17, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.42%

Vulnerability Summary

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 `extract_l3_ipv6`, `extract_l4_tcp`, and `extract_l4_udp` that can be triggered remotely.

Impacted Vendors

openvswitch 1

Reference Links

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2418 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2648 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2727 https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-March/329323.html https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2418 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2648 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2727 https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-March/329323.html

CVSS v3.0

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:3.0/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