CVE-2016-2074 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer in Openvswitch

CWE-119 — Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory BufferCWE-121 — Stack-based Buffer Overflow9 documents7 sources
Severity
9.8CRITICALNVD
EPSS
7.5%
top 8.16%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
OpenvswitchRedhat Openshift
Timeline
PublishedJul 3
Latest updateMay 14

Description

Buffer overflow in lib/flow.c in ovs-vswitchd in Open vSwitch 2.2.x and 2.3.x before 2.3.3 and 2.4.x before 2.4.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted MPLS packets, as demonstrated by a long string in an ovs-appctl command.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages3 packages

▶Debianopenvswitch/openvswitch< 2.3.0+git20140819-4+3
▶NVDopenvswitch/openvswitch5 versions+4

Patches

Patch: openvswitch.org ↗Patch: openvswitch.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-xfh5-4xfg-3g5f: Buffer overflow in lib/flow↗2022-05-14
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OSV
CVE-2016-2074: Buffer overflow in lib/flow↗2016-07-03
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CVEList
CVE-2016-2074: Buffer overflow in lib/flow↗2016-07-03
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
openvswitch: MPLS buffer overflow vulnerability↗2016-03-28
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Debian
CVE-2016-2074: openvswitch - Buffer overflow in lib/flow.c in ovs-vswitchd in Open vSwitch 2.2.x and 2.3.x be...↗2016
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💬Community

3
Bugzilla
CVE-2016-2074 openvswitch: MPLS buffer overflow vulnerability [rdo]↗2016-04-28
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-2074 openvswitch: MPLS buffer overflow vulnerability [fedora-all]↗2016-03-29
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Bugzilla
CVE-2016-2074 openvswitch: MPLS buffer overflow vulnerability↗2016-03-17
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CVE-2016-2074 — Openvswitch vulnerability | cvebase