Critical
Security advisory
In Open vSwitch (OvS) 2.7.0, while parsing an OFPT_QUEUE_GET_CONFIG_REPLY type OFP 1.0 message, there is a buffer over-read that is caused by an unsigned integer underflow in the function `ofputil_pull_queue_get_config_reply10` in `lib/ofp-util.c`.
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- Affected versions
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- CVEs
- CVE-2017-9214
- Confirmed fixed CVEs
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- Updated in this feed
- 1 Nov 2026, 08:24 UTC · Revision 1
Source evidence
In Open vSwitch (OvS) 2.7.0, while parsing an OFPT_QUEUE_GET_CONFIG_REPLY type OFP 1.0 message, there is a buffer over-read that is caused by an unsigned integer underflow in the function `ofputil_pull_queue_get_config_reply10` in `lib/ofp-util.c`.
osv:CVE-2017-9214
Complete source record
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