CVE-2016-10377

high

Published 2017-05-29 · Modified 2026-05-13

CVSS v3

8.8

CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2

5.8

VIR risk

8.8

Description

In Open vSwitch (OvS) 2.5.0, a malformed IP packet can cause the switch to read past the end of the packet buffer due to an unsigned integer underflow in `lib/flow.c` in the function `miniflow_extract`, permitting remote bypass of the access control list enforced by the switch.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

82%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-10377

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: cve@mitre.org — https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2016-July/319503.html

OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2.6.1+git20161123-1`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`2.6.1+git20161123-1`
debian	forky	fixed	`2.6.1+git20161123-1`
debian	sid	fixed	`2.6.1+git20161123-1`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2.6.1+git20161123-1`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
openvswitch	openvswitch	`2.5.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.