Source: openvswitch Version: 2.3.0+git20140819-1 Severity: important Tags: security upstream patch
Hi, the following vulnerability was published for openvswitch. CVE-2017-9263[0]: | 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. If you fix the vulnerability please also make sure to include the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities & Exposures) id in your changelog entry. For further information see: [0] https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9263 https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-9263 [1] https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-May/332966.html Regards, Salvatore
