Critical severity9.8NVD Advisory· Published May 29, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2017-9265
CVE-2017-9265
Description
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.
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Affected products
9- cpe:2.3:a:openvswitch:openvswitch:2.7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- osv-coords8 versionspkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20Raspberry%20Pi%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP3pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch&distro=SUSE%20OpenStack%20Cloud%206pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch-dpdk&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%2012%20SP2pkg:rpm/suse/openvswitch-dpdk&distro=SUSE%20Linux%20Enterprise%20Server%20for%20SAP%20Applications%2012%20SP2
< 2.5.1-25.12.7+ 7 more
- (no CPE)range: < 2.5.1-25.12.7
- (no CPE)range: < 2.7.0-3.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.5.1-25.12.7
- (no CPE)range: < 2.5.1-25.12.7
- (no CPE)range: < 2.7.0-3.3.1
- (no CPE)range: < 2.5.1-6.4.7
- (no CPE)range: < 2.5.1-25.12.8
- (no CPE)range: < 2.5.1-25.12.8
Patches
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References
8- mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-May/332965.htmlnvdMailing ListPatchVendor Advisory
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2418nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2553nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2648nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2665nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2692nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2698nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2727nvd
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