CVE-2024-22563: openvswitch 2.17.8 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the function xmalloc__ in openvswitch-2.17.8/lib/util.c.

Description

openvswitch 2.17.8 was discovered to contain a memory leak via the function xmalloc__ in openvswitch-2.17.8/lib/util.c.

Classification

CVE ID: CVE-2024-22563

Affected Products

Vendor: n/a

Product: n/a

Exploit Prediction Scoring System (EPSS)

EPSS Score: 0.08% (probability of being exploited)

EPSS Percentile: 25.24% (scored less or equal to compared to others)

EPSS Date: 2025-06-07 (when was this score calculated)

Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC)

SSVC Exploitation: poc

SSVC Technical Impact: partial

SSVC Automatable: true

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-22563
https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs-issues/issues/315

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