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CVE-2017-9263 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (openvswitch), 5 status rows across 5 suites (trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 2, DNE 1, ignored 1, needs-triage 1.
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.