CVE-2017-9263

Publication date 29 May 2017

Last updated 24 July 2024


Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

6.5 · Medium

Score breakdown

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.

Status

Package Ubuntu Release Status
openvswitch 17.04 zesty
Fixed 2.6.1-0ubuntu5.1
16.10 yakkety Ignored end of life
16.04 LTS xenial
Fixed 2.5.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2
14.04 LTS trusty Not in release

Patch details

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Package Patch details
openvswitch

Severity score breakdown

Parameter Value
Base score 6.5 · Medium
Attack vector Adjacent
Attack complexity Low
Privileges required None
User interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity impact None
Availability impact High
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

Related Ubuntu Security Notices (USN)

    • USN-3450-1
    • Open vSwitch vulnerabilities
    • 11 October 2017

Other references