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Ubuntu: USN-3450-1 (CVE-2017-9263): Open vSwitch vulnerabilities

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Ubuntu: USN-3450-1 (CVE-2017-9263): Open vSwitch vulnerabilities

Severity
3
CVSS
(AV:A/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
05/29/2017
Created
07/25/2018
Added
10/11/2017
Modified
04/25/2018

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.

Solution(s)

  • ubuntu-upgrade-openvswitch-common

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