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An openvswitch update has been released for Debian



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Debian Security Advisory DSA-3533-1 security@debian.org
https://www.debian.org/security/ Salvatore Bonaccorso
March 29, 2016 https://www.debian.org/security/faq
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Package : openvswitch
CVE ID : CVE-2016-2074

Kashyap Thimmaraju and Bhargava Shastry discovered a remotely
triggerable buffer overflow vulnerability in openvswitch, a production
quality, multilayer virtual switch implementation. Specially crafted
MPLS packets could overflow the buffer reserved for MPLS labels in an
OVS internal data structure. A remote attacker can take advantage of
this flaw to cause a denial of service, or potentially, execution of
arbitrary code.

For the stable distribution (jessie), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.0+git20140819-3+deb8u1.

For the unstable distribution (sid), this problem has been fixed in
version 2.3.0+git20140819-4.

We recommend that you upgrade your openvswitch packages.

Further information about Debian Security Advisories, how to apply
these updates to your system and frequently asked questions can be
found at: https://www.debian.org/security/