{"id":"CVE-2017-14970","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2017-14970","generatedAt":"2026-10-29T01:42:10.848Z","title":"In lib/ofp-util.c in Open vSwitch (OvS) before 2.8.1, there are multiple memory leaks while parsing malformed OpenFlow group mod messages.","description":"In lib/ofp-util.c in Open vSwitch (OvS) before 2.8.1, there are multiple memory leaks while parsing malformed OpenFlow group mod messages. NOTE: the vendor disputes the relevance of this report, stating \"it can only be triggered by an OpenFlow controller, but OpenFlow controllers have much more direct and powerful ways to force Open vSwitch to allocate memory, such as by inserting flows into the flow table.\"","published":"2017-10-02T01:29:01.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:07:05.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":5.9,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"},"cwe":["CWE-772"],"affected":["openvswitch/openvswitch"],"epss":{"score":0.01244,"percentile":0.69126,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (1.24%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-September/339085.html","tags":["Mailing List","Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-September/339086.html","tags":["Mailing List","Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-September/339085.html","tags":["Mailing List","Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-September/339086.html","tags":["Mailing List","Patch","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-14970","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}