CVE-2017-9263 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Reference

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2418 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2553 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2648 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2665 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2692 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2698 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2727 https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-May/332966.html

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

6.5