UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9263

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-9263
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9263.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9263
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Published
2017-05-29T00:00:00Z
Modified
2025-09-08T16:44:17Z
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
  • Ubuntu - medium
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

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / openvswitch

Package

Name
openvswitch
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/openvswitch@2.5.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected
Fixed
2.5.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2

Affected versions

2.*

2.4.0-0ubuntu4
2.4.0-0ubuntu5
2.5.0~git20160129.46a88d9-0ubuntu1
2.5.0~git20160219.522aca6-0ubuntu1
2.5.0~git20160219.522aca6-0ubuntu2
2.5.0~git20160219.522aca6-0ubuntu3
2.5.0-0ubuntu1
2.5.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.1

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_name": "openvswitch-common",
            "binary_version": "2.5.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "openvswitch-ipsec",
            "binary_version": "2.5.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "openvswitch-pki",
            "binary_version": "2.5.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "openvswitch-switch",
            "binary_version": "2.5.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "openvswitch-switch-dpdk",
            "binary_version": "2.5.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "openvswitch-test",
            "binary_version": "2.5.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "openvswitch-testcontroller",
            "binary_version": "2.5.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "openvswitch-vtep",
            "binary_version": "2.5.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "ovn-central",
            "binary_version": "2.5.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "ovn-common",
            "binary_version": "2.5.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "ovn-docker",
            "binary_version": "2.5.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "ovn-host",
            "binary_version": "2.5.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2"
        },
        {
            "binary_name": "python-openvswitch",
            "binary_version": "2.5.2-0ubuntu0.16.04.2"
        }
    ],
    "availability": "No subscription required"
}

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-9263.json"