CVE-2016-2074

Exploitation

Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.

SSVC decision

Not assessed by CISA

EPSS probability

6.39% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.

EPSS percentile

Equal to or higher than the score of 93.4% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.

NVD base score

9.8 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.

NVD CVSS vector

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

NVD analysis status

Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.

Red Hat severity

Important. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.

Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.

Published

2016-07-03 21:00Z10 YR AGO

Last updated

2024-08-05 23:17Z2 YR AGO

Reserved

2016-01-26

Assigning CNA

mitre

Record state

PUBLISHED

Severity

Not rated by the issuing CNA

CNA CVSS vector

Not published by the issuing CNA

Weaknesses

• CWE-119Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferClass
• CWE-121Stack-based Buffer OverflowVariant

Data version

5.1

Document digest

6358738b9febd4b9a97ba4f2768a0020436a06704633939f0b6502246a382d6e

• openvswitch.org[ovs-announce] 20160328 CVE-2016-2074: MPLS buffer overflow vulnerabilities in Open vSwitchhttp://openvswitch.org/pipermail/announce/2016-March/000082.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:0537http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0537.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
• rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:0524http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0524.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
• bugzilla.redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1318553x_refsource_CONFIRM
• www.debian.orgDSA-3533http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3533vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
• access.redhat.comRHSA-2016:0615https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016:0615vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
• security-tracker.debian.orghttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-2074x_refsource_CONFIRM
• security.gentoo.orgGLSA-201701-07https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201701-07vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
• support.citrix.comhttps://support.citrix.com/article/CTX232655x_refsource_CONFIRM
• rhn.redhat.comRHSA-2016:0523http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0523.htmlvendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
• openvswitch.org[ovs-announce] 20160328 Open vSwitch 2.4.1 and 2.3.3 Availablehttp://openvswitch.org/pipermail/announce/2016-March/000083.htmlmailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
• www.securityfocus.com85700http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/85700vdb-entryx_refsource_BID