CVE-2023-3966
Openvswsitch: ovs-vswitch fails to recover after malformed geneve metadata packet
- State
- Published
- Severity
- 7.5 High
- Published
- Feb 22, 2024
- Updated
- Feb 13, 2025
- Reserved
- Jul 26, 2023
Description
A flaw was found in Open vSwitch where multiple versions are vulnerable to crafted Geneve packets, which may result in a denial of service and invalid memory accesses. Triggering this issue requires that hardware offloading via the netlink path is enabled.
Scores
| CVSS | Score | Vector | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3.1 | 7.5 High | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H | redhat |
Weaknesses
- CWE-248 Uncaught Exception
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
openvswitchn/a |
|
Fast Datapath for RHEL 7Red Hat | |
Fast Datapath for RHEL 7Red Hat | |
Fast Datapath for RHEL 7Red Hat | |
Fast Datapath for RHEL 7Red Hat | |
Fast Datapath for RHEL 7Red Hat | |
Fast Datapath for RHEL 8Red Hat | |
Fast Datapath for RHEL 8Red Hat | |
Fast Datapath for RHEL 8Red Hat | |
Fast Datapath for RHEL 8Red Hat | |
Fast Datapath for RHEL 8Red Hat | |
Fast Datapath for RHEL 8Red Hat | |
Fast Datapath for RHEL 8Red Hat | |
Fast Datapath for RHEL 9Red Hat | |
Fast Datapath for RHEL 9Red Hat | |
Fast Datapath for RHEL 9Red Hat | |
Fast Datapath for RHEL 9Red Hat | |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat | |
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform 3.11Red Hat | |
OpenStack RDORDO | |
FedoraFedora |
References
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2023-3966vdb-entry
- RHBZ#2178363issue-tracking
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/VYYUBF6OW2JG7VOFEOROHXGSJCTES3QO/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce@lists.fedoraproject.org/message/LFZADABUDOFI2KZIRQBYFZCIKH55RGY3/
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