Improper Input Validation Affecting openvswitch package, versions [,2.7.0]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (66th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-OPENVSWITCH-2369367
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed29 May 2017
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 29 May 2017

CVE-2017-9263  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for openvswitch.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Input Validation. 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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