CVE-2018-17205

Name	CVE-2018-17205
Description	An issue was discovered in Open vSwitch (OvS) 2.7.x through 2.7.6, affecting ofproto_rule_insert__ in ofproto/ofproto.c. During bundle commit, flows that are added in a bundle are applied to ofproto in order. If a flow cannot be added (e.g., the flow action is a go-to for a group id that does not exist), OvS tries to revert back all previous flows that were successfully applied from the same bundle. This is possible since OvS maintains list of old flows that were replaced by flows from the bundle. While reinserting old flows, OvS has an assertion failure due to a check on rule state != RULE_INITIALIZED. This would work for new flows, but for an old flow the rule state is RULE_REMOVED. The assertion failure causes an OvS crash.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
openvswitch (PTS)	bullseye (security), bullseye	2.15.0+ds1-2+deb11u5	fixed
	bookworm, bookworm (security)	3.1.0-2+deb12u1	fixed
	sid, trixie	3.5.0~git20241129.2af7cef-2	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version
openvswitch	source	jessie	(not affected)
openvswitch	source	stretch	(not affected)
openvswitch	source	(unstable)	2.10.0+2018.08.28+git.8ca7c82b7d+ds1-1

Notes

[stretch] - openvswitch <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
[jessie] - openvswitch <not-affected> (Vulnerable code does not exist; no such function)
https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/9a0ac025de9303334688ff08f01fc08604d2f624 (master)
https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/638d406e3b647359f3d82189d7a6ee56b4a54928 (branch-2.8)
https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/0befd1f3745055c32940f5faf9559be6a14395e6 (branch-2.7)