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DEBIAN-CVE-2017-9263

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...

Original description

The description as published by the source.

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.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) OSV

Affected packages

Debian:12 openvswitch

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.8.1+dfsg1-2"}]}]

Debian:13 openvswitch

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.8.1+dfsg1-2"}]}]

Debian:14 openvswitch

[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"},{"fixed":"2.8.1+dfsg1-2"}]}]

References

advisory security-tracker.debian.org