CVE-2017-1000357

Related Vulnerabilities: CVE-2017-1000357  

Denial of Service attack when the switch rejects to receive packets from the controller. Component: This vulnerability affects OpenDaylight odl-l2switch-switch, which is the feature responsible for the OpenFlow communication. Version: OpenDaylight versions 3.3 (Lithium-SR3), 3.4 (Lithium-SR4), 4.0 (Beryllium), 4.1 (Beryllium-SR1), 4.2 (Beryllium-SR2), and 4.4 (Beryllium-SR4) are affected by this flaw. Java version is openjdk version 1.8.0_91.

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

Denial of Service attack when the switch rejects to receive packets from the controller. Component: This vulnerability affects OpenDaylight odl-l2switch-switch, which is the feature responsible for the OpenFlow communication. Version: OpenDaylight versions 3.3 (Lithium-SR3), 3.4 (Lithium-SR4), 4.0 (Beryllium), 4.1 (Beryllium-SR1), 4.2 (Beryllium-SR2), and 4.4 (Beryllium-SR4) are affected by this flaw. Java version is openjdk version 1.8.0_91.

Find out more about CVE-2017-1000357 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Because the odl-l2switch-switch feature has never been packaged for Red Hat OpenStack Platform, this flaw does not affect any RHOSP version.

CVSS v3 metrics

NOTE: The following CVSS v3 metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.

CVSS3 Base Score 7.5
CVSS3 Base Metrics CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack Vector Network
Attack Complexity Low
Privileges Required None
User Interaction None
Scope Unchanged
Confidentiality None
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact High

Affected Packages State

Platform Package State
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 9.0 opendaylight Not affected
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8.0 (Liberty) opendaylight Not affected
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 11.0 (Ocata) opendaylight Not affected
Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 opendaylight Not affected

Acknowledgements

Red Hat would like to thank OpenDaylight project for reporting this issue.

External References