CVE-2022-32166

ovs - buffer over-read

State: Published
Severity: 6.1 Medium
Published: Sep 28, 2022
Updated: May 21, 2025
Reserved: May 31, 2022

Description

In 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.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.1 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read

Affected Products

Product	Versions
ovsovs	v0.90.0 to before unspecifiedAffected v2.5.0 and earlierAffected

References

https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2022-32166
https://github.com/cloudbase/ovs/commit/2ed6505555cdcb46f9b1f0329d1491b75290fc73
[debian-lts-announce] 20221029 [SECURITY] [DLA 3168-1] openvswitch security updatemailing-list

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