[ovs-dev] Bug#877543: CVE-2017-14970

[Ben Pfaff]

On Mon, Oct 02, 2017 at 07:17:59PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> Source: openvswitch
> Severity: important
> Tags: security
> 
> Please see http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-14970

We don't think that these memory leaks are important because they can
only come from the OpenFlow controller, which has more powerful ways to
force memory allocations; for example, by inserting large numbers of
flows.