| Name | CVE-2017-9263 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 863655 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| openvswitch (PTS) | bullseye (security), bullseye | 2.15.0+ds1-2+deb11u5 | fixed |
| bookworm, bookworm (security) | 3.1.0-2+deb12u1 | fixed |
| sid, trixie | 3.5.0~git20241129.2af7cef-2 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Notes
[jessie] - openvswitch <not-affected> (No controllers implemented, cf. #863655)
[wheezy] - openvswitch <not-affected> (No controllers implemented, cf. #863655)
https://mail.openvswitch.org/pipermail/ovs-dev/2017-May/332966.html
Controllers shipped in Debian not vulnerable, see #863655