DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9263

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Source
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9263
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/debian-osv/debian-cve-osv/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9263.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9263
Upstream
Published
2017-05-29T04:29:00Z
Modified
2025-09-30T03:54:26Z
Severity
  • 6.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
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

Affected packages

Debian:11 / openvswitch

Package

Name
openvswitch
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/openvswitch?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.8.1+dfsg1-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:12 / openvswitch

Package

Name
openvswitch
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/openvswitch?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.8.1+dfsg1-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:13 / openvswitch

Package

Name
openvswitch
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/openvswitch?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.8.1+dfsg1-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}

Debian:14 / openvswitch

Package

Name
openvswitch
Purl
pkg:deb/debian/openvswitch?arch=source

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.8.1+dfsg1-2

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "urgency": "unimportant"
}