Source: openvswitch Version: 2.6.2~pre+git20161223-3 Severity: important Tags: patch upstream security
Hi, the following vulnerability was published for openvswitch. CVE-2017-9264[0]: | In lib/conntrack.c in the firewall implementation in Open vSwitch (OvS) | 2.6.1, there is a buffer over-read while parsing malformed TCP, UDP, | and IPv6 packets in the functions `extract_l3_ipv6`, `extract_l4_tcp`, | and `extract_l4_udp` that can be triggered remotely. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9264 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9264 [1] https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-March/329323.html Regards, Salvatore
