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CVE-2022-32166

openvswitch: Heap buffer over-read in flow.c

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

8.6

CVSS 3.1

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Published · September 28, 2022

Updated · June 28, 2026

Description

A flaw was found in OpenVSwitch. Versions 0.90.0 through 2.5.0 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 remote execution.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.1 · 8.6
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H

CWE-126 · Buffer Over-read