CVE-2017-9263
openvswitch: Invalid processing of a malicious OpenFlow role status message
Severity
ModerateRed Hat Product Security
CVSS 3.0
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Published · May 26, 2017
Updated · June 28, 2026
Description
While parsing an OpenFlow role status message Open vSwitch (OvS), a call to the abort() function for undefined role status reasons in the function 'ofp_print_role_status_message' in 'lib/ofp-print.c' could be misused for a remote denial of service attack by a malicious switch.
CVSS score applicability
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Mitigation
No mitigation is specified in collected source.
CVSS / CWE
CVSS 3.0 · 5.9CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE-20 · Improper Input Validation