CVE-2017-9263
N/A
Published: May 29, 2017 at 03:52 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 01:27 AM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorOpenvswitch
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
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.
Affected
Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.
Remediation
No guide yetNo remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:
References (8)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2418Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2553Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2648Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2665Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2692Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2698Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
Source: [email protected]
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2727x_refsource_CONFIRMMailing ListPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-May/332966.htmlQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-20
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