UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9263

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9263

    Published: 29 May 2017Last Modified: 4 Feb 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-9263
    Aliases:
    USN-3450-1

    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://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9263, https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-May/332966.html, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3450-1, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-9263

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: openvswitch

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -2.5.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

    Affected versions

    2.4.0-0ubuntu4
    2.4.0-0ubuntu5

    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
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High