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CVE-2022-32166 (GCVE-0-2022-32166)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-09-28 09:30 – Updated: 2025-05-21 14:13
VLAI?
Summary
In ovs versions v0.90.0 through v2.5.0 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 possible remote execution.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- CWE-125 - Out-of-bounds Read
Assigner
References
Impacted products
Credits
Mend Vulnerability Research Team (MVR)
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