Remote Denial of Service (DoS) Vulnerability in Open vSwitch (OvS) 2.7.0

CVE-2017-9263 · LOW Severity

AV:A/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

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.

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