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Debian: DLA-2571-1 Moderate: Openvswitch Denial Of Service Attacks

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Calendar Grey February 19, 2021
Dist Debian Esm H88
Openvswitch security patch DLA-2572-2 issued to mitigate several vulnerabilities impacting Debian platforms.
Several issues have been found in openvswitch, a production quality, multilayer, software-based, Ethernet virtual switch

Summary

Several issues have been found in openvswitch, a production quality,
multilayer, software-based, Ethernet virtual switch.

CVE-2020-35498

Denial of service attacks, in which crafted network packets
could cause the packet lookup to ignore network header fields
from layers 3 and 4. The crafted network packet is an ordinary
IPv4 or IPv6 packet with Ethernet padding length above 255 bytes.
This causes the packet sanity check to abort parsing header
fields after layer 2.

CVE-2020-27827

Denial of service attacks using crafted LLDP packets.

CVE-2018-17206

Buffer over-read issue during BUNDLE action decoding.

CVE-2018-17204

Assertion failure due to not validating information (group type
and command) in OF1.5 decoder.

CVE-2017-9214

Buffer over-read that is caused by an unsigned integer underflow.

CVE-2015-8011

Buffer overflow in the lldp_decode function in
daemon/protocols/lldp.c in lldpd before 0.8.0 allows remote

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Package: openvswitch
Version: 2.6.10-0+deb9u1
CVE ID: CVE-2015-8011 CVE-2017-9214 CVE-2018-17204 CVE-2018-17206

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