CVE-2018-17206
An issue was discovered in Open vSwitch (OvS) 2.7.x through 2.7.6. The decode_bundle function inside lib/ofp-actions.c is affected by a buffer over-read issue during BUNDLE action decoding.
02 Description
An issue was discovered in Open vSwitch (OvS) 2.7.x through 2.7.6. The decode_bundle function inside lib/ofp-actions.c is affected by a buffer over-read issue during BUNDLE action decoding.
03 Exploitation and scoring
- 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
- 2.04% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 81.0% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- 4.9 (CVSS v3.x), scored by the NVD independently of the CNA.
- NVD CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-17.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. 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.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2018-09-19 16:00Z8 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-05 10:47Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2018-09-19
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- CWE-125Out-of-bounds ReadBase
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 43f5862ec8f53ce95a494734351186e7a40fd2f7e1c52eb01a0d0b6300f8714e
05 Affected products
06 References
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2019:0053https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0053
- usn.ubuntu.comUSN-3873-1https://usn.ubuntu.com/3873-1/
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2018:3500https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3500
- github.comhttps://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/9237a63c47bd314b807cda0bd2216264e82edbe8
- access.redhat.comRHSA-2019:0081https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:0081
- lists.debian.org[debian-lts-announce] 20210219 [SECURITY] [DLA 2571-1] openvswitch security updatehttps://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2021/02/msg00032.html
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- openvswitch Fixed in 2.10.0+2018.08.28+git.8ca7c82b7d+ds1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- openvswitch Fixed in 2.10.0+2018.08.28+git.8ca7c82b7d+ds1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- openvswitch Fixed in 2.10.0+2018.08.28+git.8ca7c82b7d+ds1-1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
- openvswitch Fixed in 2.5.5-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
- openvswitch Fixed in 2.9.2-0ubuntu0.18.04.3
Source: Ubuntu, Canonical Ltd. Licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
A release or ecosystem missing from this list has no record here. It may be unaffected or not covered by the source. Source notices and licences.