Bug 1457335 (CVE-2017-9265)

Summary:	CVE-2017-9265 openvswitch: Buffer over-read while parsing the group mod OpenFlow message
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	aconole, ahardin, apevec, atragler, bleanhar, bmcclain, ccoleman, chrisw, cvsbot-xmlrpc, danken, dbaker, dblechte, dedgar, dmcphers, eedri, fleitner, gmollett, jgoulding, jjoyce, jkeck, joelsmith, jokerman, jschluet, kbasil, lhh, lpeer, lruzicka, markmc, mburns, mchappel, mgoldboi, michal.skrivanek, ovs-team, rbryant, rhos-maint, sclewis, slinaber, srevivo, tdecacqu, tgraf, tredaelli, ykaul
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Doc Text:	A buffer over-read issue was found in Open vSwitch (OvS) which emerged while parsing the GroupMod OpenFlow messages sent from the controller. The issue could enable an attacker to cause a denial of service type of attack.	Story Points:	---
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Last Closed:	2019-06-08 03:13:51 UTC	Type:	---
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oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
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Bug Depends On:	1456797, 1467472, 1467473, 1467474, 1467475, 1467476, 1467477, 1467478, 1467479, 1470454, 1470460
Bug Blocks:	1456799

Description Andrej Nemec 2017-05-31 14:15:52 UTC

In Open vSwitch there is a buffer over-read while parsing the group mod OpenFlow message sent from the controller in `lib/ofp-util.c` in the function `ofputil_pull_ofp15_group_mod`.

References:

https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-May/332965.html

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-05-31 14:27:39 UTC

Created openvswitch tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1456797]

Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-03 12:37:53 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Fast Datapath for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2017:2418 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2418

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2017-08-30 14:06:39 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 (Mitaka)

Via RHSA-2017:2553 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2553

Comment 10 errata-xmlrpc 2017-09-06 17:03:19 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10.0 (Newton)

Via RHSA-2017:2648 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2648

Comment 11 errata-xmlrpc 2017-09-06 17:52:05 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6.0 (Juno) for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2017:2665 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2665

Comment 12 errata-xmlrpc 2017-09-12 17:14:28 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty)

Via RHSA-2017:2692 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2692

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2017-09-12 17:22:57 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7.0 (Kilo) for RHEL 7

Via RHSA-2017:2698 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2698

Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2017-09-13 21:42:54 UTC

This issue has been addressed in the following products:

  Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11.0 (Ocata)

Via RHSA-2017:2727 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2727

Comment 15 Jason Shepherd 2018-04-03 07:10:46 UTC

Updated fixed in version to 2.7.2-1 based on packages released in https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2418.

Openshift Enterprise 3.7 uses the fixed version 2.7.2-1. Marking as not affected.