Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published May 29, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-9263
CVE-2017-9263
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 products
1- cpe:2.3:a:openvswitch:openvswitch:2.7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
8- mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-May/332966.htmlnvdMailing ListPatchVendor Advisory
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2418nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2553nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2648nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2665nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2692nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2698nvd
- access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2727nvd
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