Description
In Open vSwitch (OvS) 2.7.0, while parsing an OpenFlow role status message, there is a call to the abort() function for undefined role status reasons in the function `ofp_print_role_status_message` in `lib/ofp-print.c` that may be leveraged toward a remote DoS attack by a malicious switch.
Published: 2017-05-29
Score: 6.5 Medium
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-18199 In Open vSwitch (OvS) 2.7.0, while parsing an OpenFlow role status message, there is a call to the abort() function for undefined role status reasons in the function `ofp_print_role_status_message` in `lib/ofp-print.c` that may be leveraged toward a remote DoS attack by a malicious switch.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-3450-1 Open vSwitch vulnerabilities
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T17:02:44.177Z

Reserved: 2017-05-28T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2017-9263

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Status : Modified

Published: 2017-05-29T04:29:00.353

Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033

Link: CVE-2017-9263

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Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2017-05-26T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-9263 - Bugzilla

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