CVE-2018-17206

See a problem?
Please try reporting it to the source first.
Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2018-17206
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-17206.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2018-17206
Downstream
Related
Published
2018-09-19T16:29:01.113Z
Modified
2026-07-08T17:16:13.208874Z
Severity
  • 4.9 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

An issue was discovered in Open vSwitch (OvS) 2.7.x through 2.7.6. The decode_bundle function inside lib/ofp-actions.c is affected by a buffer over-read issue during BUNDLE action decoding.

Database specific 
{
    "unresolved_ranges": [
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "16.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "16.04"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "18.04"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "18.04"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "canonical:ubuntu_linux"
        },
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:9.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "9.0"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "9.0"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "debian:debian_linux"
        },
        {
            "cpes": [
                "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                "cpe:2.3:a:redhat:openstack:13:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "extracted_events": [
                {
                    "introduced": "10"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "10"
                },
                {
                    "introduced": "13"
                },
                {
                    "last_affected": "13"
                }
            ],
            "source": "CPE_STRING",
            "vendor_product": "redhat:openstack"
        }
    ]
}
References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/openvswitch/ovs

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs
Events
Introduced
c298ef781c2d35d939fe163cbc2f41ea7b1cb8d1
Last affected
a3830aae25911fef587c08f7301b4665ecc17ae1
Fixed
9237a63c47bd314b807cda0bd2216264e82edbe8
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:openvswitch:openvswitch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "source": [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ],
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "2.7.0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.7.6"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

v2.*
v2.7.0
v2.7.1
v2.7.2
v2.7.3
v2.7.4
v2.7.5
v2.7.6

Database specific

vanir_signatures 
[
    {
        "source": "https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/9237a63c47bd314b807cda0bd2216264e82edbe8",
        "deprecated": false,
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "digest": {
            "function_hash": "57461956889987823182985039612819091499",
            "length": 2465.0
        },
        "id": "CVE-2018-17206-41634a70",
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "target": {
            "function": "decode_bundle",
            "file": "lib/ofp-actions.c"
        }
    },
    {
        "source": "https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/9237a63c47bd314b807cda0bd2216264e82edbe8",
        "deprecated": false,
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "digest": {
            "threshold": 0.9,
            "line_hashes": [
                "210906905664758460515499443758496348914",
                "169491159002022090409035248224929762667",
                "260441358071495433885160431772933471618",
                "29049431944125111516871169759209627234",
                "104421915300623089526274437846960737898",
                "236094497615507576891058569560103942668",
                "97419143637965801260516021338863620520",
                "265232926905435110150322864614360754111"
            ]
        },
        "id": "CVE-2018-17206-f8b6cd53",
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "target": {
            "file": "lib/ofp-actions.c"
        }
    }
]
vanir_signatures_modified 
"2026-07-08T17:16:13Z"
source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2018-17206.json"