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CVE-2017-9263
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.5
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-05-29T04:29:00.353 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:27:46.880

Summary

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

openvswitch — openvswitch

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References

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