CVE-2022-32166

Summary

CVECVE-2022-32166
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2022-09-28 10:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 03:47:00 UTC
DescriptionIn ovs versions v0.90.0 through v2.5.0 are vulnerable to heap buffer over-read in flow.c. An unsafe comparison of “minimasks” function could lead access to an unmapped region of memory. This vulnerability is capable of crashing the software, memory modification, and possible remote execution.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-125

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Cloudbase Open Vswitch All All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 10.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] [DLA 3168-1] openvswitch security update MLIST lists.debian.org
flow: Avoid unsafe comparison of minimasks. · cloudbase/ovs@2ed6505 · GitHub MISC github.com
CVE-2022-32166 | Mend Vulnerability Database MISC www.mend.io
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

Discovery Credit

LEGACY: Mend Vulnerability Research Team (MVR)

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 181116 Debian Security Update for openvswitch (CVE-2022-32166)
  • 181567 Debian Security Update for openvswitch (DLA 3168-1)
  • 199005 Ubuntu Security Notification for Open vSwitch Vulnerability (USN-5698-1)
  • 752933 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for openvswitch (SUSE-SU-2022:4050-1)
  • 754067 SUSE Enterprise Linux Security Update for openvswitch (SUSE-SU-2023:2360-1)
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