Vulnerability Bulletins |
DSA-3533 openvswitch - security update |
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| Affected software | Debian |
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Kashyap Thimmaraju and Bhargava Shastry discovered a remotelytriggerable buffer overflow vulnerability in openvswitch, a productionquality, multilayer virtual switch implementation. Specially craftedMPLS packets could overflow the buffer reserved for MPLS labels in anOVS internal data structure. A remote attacker can take advantage ofthis flaw to cause a denial of service, or potentially, execution ofarbitrary code. More info: https://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3533 |
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