CVE-2017-9263: Openvswitch

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Openvswitch Openvswitch: version 2.7.0 only

Published 2017-05-29. Last modified 2026-06-17.