CVE-2017-9214: Debian Linux

Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 2.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

In Open vSwitch (OvS) 2.7.0, while parsing an OFPT_QUEUE_GET_CONFIG_REPLY type OFP 1.0 message, there is a buffer over-read that is caused by an unsigned integer underflow in the function `ofputil_pull_queue_get_config_reply10` in `lib/ofp-util.c`.

Affected products

• Debian Debian Linux: version 9.0 only
• Openvswitch Openvswitch: version 2.7.0 only
• Red Hat Openstack: version 6.0 only; version 7.0 only; version 8 only; version 9 only; version 10 only; version 11 only
• Red Hat Virtualization: version 4.1 only; version 4.0 only
• Red Hat Virtualization Manager: version 4.1 only

Published 2017-05-23. Last modified 2026-06-17.