| Name | CVE-2024-22563 |
| Description | openvswitch 2.17.8 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the function xmalloc__ in openvswitch-2.17.8/lib/util.c. |
| 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) | buster | 2.10.7+ds1-0+deb10u1 | fixed |
| buster (security) | 2.10.7+ds1-0+deb10u5 | fixed |
| bullseye | 2.15.0+ds1-2+deb11u4 | vulnerable |
| bullseye (security) | 2.15.0+ds1-2+deb11u5 | fixed |
| bookworm | 3.1.0-2 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 3.1.0-2+deb12u1 | fixed |
| trixie | 3.3.0~git20240118.e802fe7-3 | fixed |
| sid | 3.3.0-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| openvswitch | source | buster | (not affected) | | | |
| openvswitch | source | bullseye | 2.15.0+ds1-2+deb11u5 | | | |
| openvswitch | source | (unstable) | 2.17.2-4 | | | |
Notes
[buster] - openvswitch <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later)
https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs-issues/issues/315
https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/3168f328c78cf6e4b3022940452673b0e49f7620 (v2.17.0)
Introduced with: https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/commit/b6e840aed03e3f6d1aa726b482140d895f60f90f (v2.11.0)