Vulnerability CVE-2017-9263


Published: 2017-05-29

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.

Type:

CWE-20

(Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
3.3/10
2.9/10
6.5/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Adjacent network
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
None
None
Partial
Affected software
Openvswitch -> Openvswitch 

 References:
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

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