CVE-2017-9263 (GCVE-0-2017-9263)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-05-29 03:52 – Updated: 2024-08-05 17:02
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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|---|---|
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2698 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
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| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2665 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
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Date Public
2017-05-28 00:00
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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