CVE-2017-9263

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    CVE-2017-9263

    Published: 29 May 2017Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2418, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2553, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2648, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2665, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2692, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2698, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2727, https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-May/332966.html

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- c298ef781c2d35d939fe163cbc2f41ea7b1cb8d1
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    2.7.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
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    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High