CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-9263

6.5 MEDIUM Published 2017-05-29 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-05-29
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
6.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
3.3 LOW — AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-20

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 configurations

• openvswitch openvswitch 2.7.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References