CVE-2017-9263

Summary

CVECVE-2017-9263
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2017-05-29 04:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-01-05 02:31:00 UTC
DescriptionIn 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-20

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Openvswitch Openvswitch 2.7.0 All All All
Application Openvswitch Openvswitch 2.7.0 All All All

References

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[ovs-dev] [PATCH] ofp-print: Don't abort on unknown reason in role status message. CONFIRM mail.openvswitch.org Mailing List, Patch, Vendor Advisory
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