CVE-2022-32166 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required Low

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact Low

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Cloudbase	Open Vswitch
Debian	Debian Linux

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:cloudbase:open_vswitch:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Configuration 2 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:debian:debian_linux:10.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

References

Link	Providers
https://github.com/cloudbase/ovs/commit/2ed6505555cdcb46f9b1f0329d1491b75290fc73
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2022/10/msg00036.html
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2022-32166
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2022-32166
https://www.mend.io/vulnerability-database/CVE-2022-32166

History

Wed, 21 May 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	cvssV3_1 `{'score': 8.6, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H'}`	ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}` cvssV3_1 `{'score': 6.1, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: Mend

Published: 2022-09-28T09:30:12.924Z

Updated: 2025-05-21T14:13:43.702Z

Reserved: 2022-05-31T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-32166

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T07:32:55.987Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2022-09-28T10:15:09.560

Modified: 2025-05-21T15:15:56.693

Link: CVE-2022-32166

Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2022-09-28T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2022-32166 - Bugzilla

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