CVE-2017-9214

critical

Published 2017-05-23 · Modified 2026-05-13

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CVSS v3

9.8

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

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

9.8

Description

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`.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

97%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

OS	Version	Status	Fixed in
sles		affected
debian	9.0	affected
rhel	7.0	not-affected
debian	bookworm	fixed	`2.8.1+dfsg1-2`
debian	bullseye	fixed	`2.8.1+dfsg1-2`
debian	forky	fixed	`2.8.1+dfsg1-2`
debian	sid	fixed	`2.8.1+dfsg1-2`
debian	trixie	fixed	`2.8.1+dfsg1-2`

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
openvswitch	openvswitch	`2.7.0`
redhat	openstack	`6.0`
redhat	openstack	`7.0`
redhat	openstack	`8`
redhat	openstack	`9`
redhat	openstack	`10`
redhat	openstack	`11`
redhat	virtualization	`4.1`
redhat	virtualization_manager	`4.1`
redhat	virtualization	`4.0`

References

CWEs

CWE-191

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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